As the issue was being debated, George Washington wrote to Lafayette in Paris with the observation that It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the delegates from so many different states (which states you know are also different from each other in their manners, circumstances and prejudices) should unite in forming a system of national government, so little liable to well founded objections.. ... We are not to expect perfection in this world.
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