Excerpt from Timely Topics Thus Madison, as we read, just before the Convention adjourned wrote to Jefferson: I hazard an opinion that the plan, should it be adopted, will not effectively answer its national Object, and yet, as his biographer adds, he saw, in looking at it as a whole, how just and true it was in its fair proportions. From that time he gave himself heartily to its adoption, believing that upon its adoption, despite its imperfections, depended whether there should be, or should not be, a nation. 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.