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you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their
joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices,
their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and
their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production
be expected? It ... astonishes me to find this system approaching
so near to perfection as it does... Thus I consent to this Constitution
because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not
the best. The opinions I have of its errors I sacrifice to the public
good.
-Benjamin Franklin, to the Delegates of the United
States Constitutional Convention, 1787
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