Excerpt from Debates: And Other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia, Convened at Richmond, on Monday the Second Day of June, 1788, for the Purpose of Deliberating on the Constitution Recommended by the Grand Federal Convention; To Which the Federal Constitution This was a spectacle, which the political ah nals of the world had never before displayed. Almost all the governments which had preceded it, had been the offspring of force, or fraud, or ill-digested policy. They had been founded by the despotic power, or the intriguing arts of a few designing men. All the improvements, which had been introduced into their fundamen tal principles, had flowed from the unobserved innovations of time, or sprung from the insur rective impulse of the nation. It was left to the United States to exhibit the unprecedented spec(iv) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.