“I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.”

— Fisher Ames

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.

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