The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CXCVII
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ⅭⅩⅭⅦ. Benjamin Franklin to M. Le Veillard.[1]
April 22. 1788.
It is very possible, as you suppose, that all the Articles of the propos’d new Government will not remain unchang’d after the first meeting of the Congress. I am of Opinion with You, that the two Chambers where not necessary, and I disliked some other Articles that are in, and wish’d for some that are not in the propos’d Plan:—I nevertheless hope it may be adopted, though I shall have nothing to do with the execution of it, being determined to quit all public Business with my present Employment,…
- ↑ Documentary History of the Constitution, Ⅳ, 584.