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title:“Elbridge Gerry to General Warren”
authors:Elbridge Gerry
date written:1787-8-13
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Gerry, Elbridge. "Letter to General Warren." The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Vol. 3. Ed. Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. Print.

Elbridge Gerry to General Warren (August 13, 1787)

Philadelphia, Aug. 13, 1787.
It is out of my power in return for the information you have given me to inform you of our proceedings in convention, but I think they will be complete in a month or six weeks, perhaps sooner. Whenever they shall be matured I sincerely hope they will be such as you and I can approve, and then they will not be engrafted with principles of mutability, corruption or despotism, principles which some, you and I know, would not dislike to find in our national constitution.

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