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title:“James Madison to G. L. Turberville”
authors:James Madison
date written:1788-11-2
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Madison, James. "Letter to G. L. Turberville." The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Vol. 3. Ed. Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. Print.

James Madison to G. L. Turberville (November 2, 1788)

New York, Novr. 2, 1788.
I am not of the number if there be any such, who think the Constitution lately adopted a faultless work. On the contrary there are amendments wch I wished it to have received before it issued from the place in which it was formed. . . .
Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention, which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the result of a Second, meeting in present temper of America and under all the disadvantages I have mentioned.

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