“This idea of reserving right to withdraw was started at Richmd. & considered as a conditional ratification which was itself considered as worse than a rejection.”

—  James Madison

1780s, Letter to Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751–1836

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