The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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CONSTITUTION / UNITED STATES / GENERAL

Our Federal Convention is likely to sit til October; there is a general disposition through the States to adopt what they shall propose, and we may be assured their propositions will be wise, as a more able assembly never sat in America. Happily for us, that when we find our constitutions defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assemble with all the coolness of philosophers, and set it to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitutions.

to Monsieur Dumas, 10 September 1787