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Thus, they tabled the matter for later, though this would cause some, like Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, to refuse to sign the final document because of the lack of Bill of Rights.
But in the end, enough delegates, 39, were willing to sign the completed document despite that pretty much everyone had issues with elements of it. Nonetheless, as Thomas Jefferson, whose main issue with the Constitution was the lack of Bill of Rights, would state after he’d late read it, despite all its flaws it “is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men.”
A notion Ben Franklin would expound upon, stating,
“There are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve… I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an Assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me… to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another’s throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.”
