And then we hear Dr. Jarvis: “Mr. President, I cannot suffer the present Article to be passed, without rising to express my entire and perfect approbation of it. Whatever may have been my private opinion of any other part, or whatever faults or imperfections I have remarked, or fancied I have seen, in any other instance, here, sir, I have found complete satisfaction: this has been a resting place, on which I have reposed myself in the fullest security, whenever a doubt has occurred, in considering any other passage in the proposed Constitution. The honorable gentleman last speaking has called upon those persons who are opposed to our receiving the present system, to show another government, in which such _a wise precaution_ has been taken to secure to the _people_ the right of making such alterations and amendments, in a peaceable way, as experience shall have proved to be necessary. Allow me to say, sir, as far as the narrow limits of my own information extend, I know of no such example. In other countries, sir,--unhappily for mankind,--the history of their respective revolutions has been written in blood; and it is in this only that any great or important change in our political situation has been effected, without public commotions. When we shall have adopted the Constitution before us, we shall have in this Article an adequate provision for all the purposes of political reformation. If, in the course of its operation, this government shall appear to be too severe, here are the means by which this severity may be assuaged and corrected.... _We_ have united against the British; _we_ have united in calling the late federal convention; and _we_ may certainly unite again in such alterations as in reason shall appear to be important for the peace and happiness of America.” (2 _Ell. Deb._ 116.) No man ever voiced such sentiments, no conventions of Americans ever listened to them, with any knowledge or thought that the Fifth Article, “the wise precaution” to secure the liberty of the individual if the government with the national powers of the First Article oppressed that liberty, was itself a grant to another government, ten legislatures outside of the Massachusetts in which that convention was held, to infringe upon the individual liberty of every American in Massachusetts on every subject without any constitutional restraint.