European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Like 11. Others hid firmer objections John Dickinson a framer and architect at the hapless articles of confederation the const Ithon was to supplant found vague terminology in the new document whal 13 to e Long of Iho term presidential disability and who is to a judge of in " he asked the question of an oiling president was nol answered until 967 in the 25lh amendment vagueness Hadis Delanders. Randolph belatedly came to Iho support of Iho Constitution saying in was a statement of essential principles Only Hal could be accommodated to times and events no living Man could foresee. Jonathan Dayton of now Jersey Al 26 Iho youngest Delegate at Philadelphia was 1o say in 1803 look through that Insl Rumont trom beginning to end and you will nol find an article which is not founded on Iho press Milton of a clashing of interests Compromise in a word Compromise reflected in the Constitution s reluctance to be pinned Down. The document shows an unusual passion for the general and distrust for Iho Wriles contemporary historian Clinton Rossiter. While the federalists wanted to Rush to a decision while tie Ink was still Wel Franklin took a More a tical View. To change a country said the Man who knew the intemperance of big Honing bolls ii is necessary Lisl to remove Iho prejudices of the people enlighten their ignorance and convince them Hal their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes and this is nol is work of a it look Only three Days however Lor maj. William Jackson Iho Secretary of the convention to carry a signed copy o the Constitution to Congress sitting usually on its thumbs in new York. About All it had accomplished was passage in july of the momentous Northwest ordinance which created the framework to organize the territory North of the Ohio River and make the Middle West Tho Checkerboard ils Survey lines have become by november some Days no congressmen showed up Al Al. Congress would have preferred Jackson Gallop somewhere else and could not even bring itself to Utler the word the Parchment was simply the report of the convention lately assembled in Congress had grudgingly assented to the convention but Only insofar As it might recommend Ailor hons to the articles. Instead the convention had drawn up a whole new government. Anti federalists in and out of Congress i Hough this was a second rebellion As Brazen As George Iii though the first however. 10 of the delegates in Philadelphia were also members of Congress including Madison the shy virginian who had largely engineered the whole business Madison and the other federalists saw no reason to expect thai a second convention would improve on he compromises of sectional and Small is slate big stale rivalries that had broken up the first Al least h c federalists had come up with a Constitution Tho Anil federalists sneered Al As Grumbl Lomans were disorganized. Icari Fless and. So far nol for anything so much As they were against Cheryl Hing. Their weakness was Iho federalists strength. On sell 28. Only Cigle Days alter Jackson reached town Congress voted unanimously to submit the cons Litchon to Iho approval of Tho stoles. But Congress demons Ira led us ambivalence by making no recommendation pro or con ii gave no advice to Iho states ii jul mailed of the the framers had stipulated in article Vii ii it approval by coi Ivel Lions in nine of the 13 slates would be sufficient to ratify the const Lulion Gouverneur Morris who had put most of the document m ils Imal form including we. Tho Scopio h had no illusions 1 some have Boas cd it As a work irom heaven. I have Many reasons to believe lha in is the Vork of Plain Honsl men and such i hunk in will there were no polls of course in those Days to predict How Iho 3 million americans woo Ihm King Morris predicted that All the new England Stales would ratify except Rhode Island which had boy colled Tho Convent Ion and Whoso Independent ways earned or Tho name rogue Island Morns rated Pennsylvania a pick pm he gave no Points on the South either Way Massack Sulls. New York. Pennsylvania and Virginia wore a Ono ally regarded As Pivotal. They had been in the More front of the revolution were the most populous and Home of Pouf of the Nahon o leaders. New Mojsey Delaware and Georgia were regarded As shoo ins by the federalists Lor Ihei own Loe in Tiu Stivis. Elsewhere Wai a landscape of question Marks. Jefferson wrote irom Paris thai to hoped nine Stales wow ratify and Iho remaining four balk to exert leverage or a Bill of rights although he Lato changed his mind. Sherman for his part i splayed Hal Lingo of mis Rusl i hat often cropped up among Tho framers they could be just a Bil sceptical Aboul the popular Wisdom on which they had based Iho proposed new government no Bill of Nihls said Sherman Ever yet bound the supreme Power longer than the honeymoon of a new married couple unlos5 the Weie inti in the was Hoiris Bounri is he Ellen was Vilh another of Nott Lical Joi it to pretends to he sick Hll than. Is a Arthur Lee of Virginia Truli or Biol or Richard Home Washington Ihn Boh cow Nvvf to f t can Ali ,1 in for no other pm Vii thai to him the alternative to id Consoli Luzion was anarchy Shays rebellion in is los the prior Winter us much Richard Henry Lee refilled thai a in it government must be established for Lens of anarchy is really saying to should kill ourselves for fear of dying whatever their fears As Snow foil in now England and autumn cami1 to Iho South it was becoming it turn of the people themselves to speak ii was not a plebiscite Only once has Iho Constitution Boon submitted to a popular referendum that was in Rhode Island on March 24. 1788 ii loss by a landslide although Iho vote was boycotted by the federalists the people would nol vote disc ally on the Constitution that Linge of mis Rusf again. They would vote for delegates to ratifying conventions. Delegates Tho frames hoped would to the More enlightened and dispassionate in Char states but we Iho people would finally have their say who were they As diverse As the land they Rohrt Bild As varied As Hamlet and town Tiller fold and Lores cd Frontier they were Cabinet makers wig makers cobblers mar chants. Distillers preachers Sailmaker clockmakers teamsters porters Sawyers whip makers clerks ferryman banners Farmers poll cars. Lawyers upholsterers gunsmiths jewellers Coopers teachers Barbers Corset makers stocking makers Brewers sugar refiners Lono Cullers Victualler printers Lallow Chandlers glovers wheelwrights halters blacksmiths. Spinning wheel makers tailors bricklayers sign painters sea captains. Mcleod Isle. Congregationalists. Catholics. Presbyterians hard Money men. Soft Money men. Veterans much has been made of Sale of the original in enl of the framers they Are known to a discernible degree by their writings the delegates to the rallying conventions where notes were nol always taken arc More dimly a Decd and of those thousands of the people what was their in enl when they voted for the men who would vote on the Constitution drafted by men Whoso Eilent posterity would choose to know7 As 1787 faded info 1788. No one could say and maybe of ill cannot for certain Bui their Limo to be Hoard had come. Efima Bombeck the problem with snaring is Hal no one lakes it seriously since in is classified As an inconvenience and nol a disease some people lend to laugh in Oil some people find humor in the bombing of Pearl marts. Tho rest of us go to bed nightly serenaded by a Geo club of gasps whistles gurgles. Buzzes hisses with occasional solos by grinding Teeth and some mane conversation i think in s Lime Lor those of you who snore and Don t Lell me you Don l hear yourselves to realize there Are some serious Side Ell Els to snoring that will Only increase As Lime goes by. Just recently a 66-year-old Man consulted his doctor complaining of a Dull pain
