When President Adams persuaded him to go as envoy to France, he wrote to another envoy of “General Marshall,” as he was then called, from his rank of Brigadier-General in the Virginia Militia:—
“He is a plain man, very sensible, cautious, guarded, and learned in the Law of Nations.”
James B. Thayer (Arranged)
THE CONSTITUTION
As the British Constitution is the most subtile organism, which has proceeded from progressive history; so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time, by the brain and purpose of man.
William Ewart Gladstone
“A Constitution,” says the dictionary, is “the fundamental organic law or principles of Government of a Nation, State, Society, or other organized body of men.
“Also a written instrument embodying such law.”
This is not so hard to understand:—