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What was Thomas B. Wait’s view of the necessity for a Bill of Rights ?

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Reviewing the draft, Wait wrote, “Now, how absurd—how grosly absurd is all this, if Congress, in reality, have no powers but those particularly specified in the Constitution!” He continued: “It will not do, my friend—for God’s sake let us not deny self-evidence propositions—let us not sacrifice the truth, that we may establish a favourite hypothesis;—in the present case, the liberties and happiness of a world may also be sacrificed.” “There is a certain darkness, duplicity and studied ambiguity of expression running thro’ the whole Constitution which renders a Bill of Rights peculiarly necessary.—As it now stands but very few individuals do, or ever will understand it.”

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