1.  Its  Members  of  the  most  select  kind  &  possessing  particularly
the  confidence  of  yr.  Constituents

2.  do-  generally  of  mature  age  &  much  political  experience.
3.  Disinterestedness  &  candor  demonstrated  by  mutual  conces-
sions, &  frequent  changes  of  opinion

4.  Few  who  did  not  change  in  the  progress  of  discussions  the
opinions  on  important  points  which  they  carried  into  the  Convention

5.  Few  who,  at  the  close  of  the  Convention,  were  not  ready  to
admit  this  change  as  the  enlightening  effect  of  the  discusions  —

6.  And  how  few,  whose  opinions  at  the  close  of  the  Convention,
have  not  undergone  changes  on  some  points,  under  the  more  enlight-
ening influence  of  experience.
7.  Yet  how  much  fewer  still  who,  if  now  living,  with  the  recol-
lection of  the  difficulties  in  the  Convention,  of  overcoming  or  recon-
ciling honest  differences  of  opinion,  political  biasses,  and  local  inter-
ests; and  with  due  attention  to  the  varieties  &  discords  of  opinion,
^e  vicisitudes  of  parties,  and  the  collisions  real  or  imagined  of  local
interests,  witnessed  on  the  face  of  the  Nation,  would  not  felicitate
their  Country  on  the  happy  result  of  the  original  Convention,  and
deprecate  the  experiment  of  another  with  general  power  to  revise
its  work.
8.  The  restraining  influence  of  the  Constin  on  the  aberrations
of  the  States  of  great  importance  tho'  invisible.  It  stifles  wishes  &
inclinations  which  wd  otherwise  ripen  into  overt  &  pernicious  acts.
