Massachusetts Ratifying Convention
January 30, 1788
One of the most fundamental concerns when framing a Constitution, or any law for that matter, is the danger of abuse. Those who believe that power will be abused will choose to err on the side of depriving a government of power. And those people would go one step further to posit that where there are ambiguities in a law, that law should not stand. Abraham Holmes and Christopher Gore debated this point at the Massachusetts ratifying convention.
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