Constitutional Conventions Quotes & Sayings

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable. — James Madison

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one. — Tom Coburn

There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew up a Social Contract to form the state. But nobody has been able to find an actual record of it. Practically all the governments whose origins are historically established were the result of conquest-of one tribe by another, one city by another, one people by another. Of course there have been constitutional conventions, but they merely changed the working rules of governments already in being. — Henry Hazlitt