1787年11月30日
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James Wilson’s opening speech to the Pennsylvania ratification convention was more than the opening defense of the work of the Constitutional Convention; it was an appeal to something greater. “Governments, in general,” he noted, “have been the result of force, of fraud, accident.“有史以来第一次, 这是美国向世界展示的第一例, 据我们所知, 一个国家自愿聚集在一起, 考虑充分, 冷静地做决定, concerning that system of government under which they would wish that they 和 their posterity should live.”
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