#OTD 1787, #JamesMadison wrote his father from the #ConstitutionalConvention,
“I am sorry that I cannot gratify your wish to be informed of the proceedings of the Convention. An order of secresy leaves me at liberty merely to tell you that nothing definitive is yet done..."
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