[559]. Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II, pp. 46 ff.
[560]. Bancroft, History of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. II, p. 250; Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II, p. 25; Delaware State Council Minutes, 1776–1792, pp. 1081–82 (Delaware Historical Society Papers); Connecticut Courant, Dec. 24, 1787.
[561]. See above, p. 82.
[562]. McMaster and Stone, Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, p. 3.
[563]. McMaster and Stone, op. cit., p. 4.
[564]. Ibid., p. 14.
[565]. Ibid., p. 15.
[566]. McMaster and Stone, op. cit., p. 20. The following year [1788] when the ratification of the Constitution was celebrated in Philadelphia, James Wilson, in an oration on the great achievement said: “A people free and enlightened, establishing and ratifying a system of government which they have previously considered, examined, and approved! This is the spectacle which we are assembled to celebrate; and it is the most dignified one that has yet appeared on our globe.... What is the object exhibited to our contemplation? A whole people exercising its first and greatest power—performing an act of sovereignty, original and unlimited!... Happy country! May thy happiness be perpetual!” Works (1804 ed.), Vol. III, pp. 299 ff.
[567]. Bancroft, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 278; Votes and Proceedings of the Senate of Maryland, November Session, 1787, pp. 5 ff.
[568]. Ibid., p. 283.