"I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law."
— Fisher Ames

January 1, 1970

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Lawyers from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesPoliticians from MassachusettsHarvard University alumniFederalist Party (United States) politicians
Original Language: English

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Speech on Biennial Elections before the Convention of Massachusetts (January 1788), reported in Seth Ames, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames with a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence (1854) p. 7.