The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CLXXXVI
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ⅭⅬⅩⅩⅩⅥ. George Washington to La Fayette.[1]
Mount Vernon February 7th. 1788
It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States (which States you know are also different from each other in their manners, circumstances and prejudices) should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.
…Had I but slightly suspected (at the time when the late Convention was in session) that another Convention would not be likely to agree upon a better form of Government, I should now be confirmed in the fixed belief that they would not be able to agree upon any system whatever.
- ↑ Documentary History of the Constitution, Ⅳ, 484–486.