. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . land. Virginia and New Jersey were to give their names to thetwo schemes that contended for mastery in the Convention;and their delegations,therefore, are of specialinterest. Virginia sentseven members. Amongthem were Washing-ton, George Mason (whoeleven years before haddrawn the first Stateconstitution), EdmundRandolph, her brilliantyoung governor, andMadison, who was toearn the title Fatherof the Jersey sent fourdelegates, all triedstatesmen: Livingstone,eleven times her gov-ernor, Patterson, tentimes her Attorney
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . land. Virginia and New Jersey were to give their names to thetwo schemes that contended for mastery in the Convention;and their delegations,therefore, are of specialinterest. Virginia sentseven members. Amongthem were Washing-ton, George Mason (whoeleven years before haddrawn the first Stateconstitution), EdmundRandolph, her brilliantyoung governor, andMadison, who was toearn the title Fatherof the Jersey sent fourdelegates, all triedstatesmen: Livingstone,eleven times her gov-ernor, Patterson, tentimes her Attorney-General, Br early, hergreat Chief Justice, andHouston, many times herCongressman. Thesedelegations were typi-cal. Hardly a man in the Convention, says McMaster,but had sat in some famous assembly, had filled somehigh place, or had made himself conspicuous for learn-ing, for scholarship, or for signal service rendered in thecause of liberty. On the other hand, William Pierce of Georgia, who sat inthe Convention, in his entertaining character sketches of his. George Washington. From the Stuart por-trait. Washington was president of theConvention and exercised great influencethere, though he made no formal speech inits sessions. He was to live thirteen yearsafter that meeting. This most famous ofhis portraits belongs to the later period ofhis life. Says John Fiske, very happily,Washington was a typical English gentle-man, reared on the right side of the Atlantic. 276 THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION, 1787 associates there, has nothing to say of several except thatthey were gentlemen of Family and fortune. CertainlyFear of this Ulustrious company felt a deep distrust of de-democracy mocracy. In their political thought, they weremuch closer to John Winthrop than to Abraham wished a government for the people, but hy what theywere fond of calling the wealth and intelligence of thecountry. At best, they were willing only so far to dividepower between the few and the many as to
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