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title:“Fisher Ames to Caleb Strong”
authors:Fisher Ames
date written:1789-9-15
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Ames, Fisher. "Letter to Caleb Strong." Creating the Bill of Rights. Ed. Kenneth R. Bowling and Helen E. Veit. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 297. Print.
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Fisher Ames to Caleb Strong (September 15, 1789)

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The Amendments too have been amended by the Senate, & many in our house, Mr. Madison, in particular, thinks, that they have lost much of their sedative Virtue by the alteration. A contest on this subject between the two houses would be very disagreeable.

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