Theodore Sedgwick

Van Schaack to Theodore Sedgwick, Pittsfield, MA, February 4, 1788, DHRC VII: 1577–78 and n.1–3 at 1577–78.

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And Congress would not give its members exorbitant salaries, Theodore Sedgwick said, because it was answerable to the people and concerned for its reputation.

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Theodore Sedgwick, a Federalist representative from western Massachusetts, said Madison was “constantly haunted with the ghost of Patrick Henry.”

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The Federalist Theodore Sedgwick seconded the motion, which the convention adopted unanimously.

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Theodore Sedgwick, who harbored powerful reservations about democracy,61 said that objection “was founded on an anti-democratical principle.”

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Observers also singled out Nathaniel Gorham, Tristram Dalton, Caleb Strong, Theodore Sedgwick, and Fisher Ames as powerful speakers on behalf of the Constitution.

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Much the same argument had been made earlier by Theodore Sedgwick, but Ames went further.

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In western Massachusetts, Theodore Sedgwick was forced, like Madison in Virginia, to state that he had been and was still “a zealous advocate of amendments” before winning his hotly contested seat in the House for Hampshire and Berkshire Counties.

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Theodore Sedgwick claimed that references to courts implied that there would also be juries as well as judges, but Abraham White and several of his colleagues remained unconvinced.17

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“The perturbation of mind we are in can be better conceived than described,” Henry Van Schaak wrote to Stockbridge delegate Theodore Sedgwick, begging for news, on February 4.

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