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Excerpt from English Opinion of the American, Constitution and Government (1783-1798)<br><br>Gladstone's panegyric of our charter of government is classic and fanciful: "As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and long gestation of progressive history; so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given moment by the brain and purpose of man." If this was the opinion of the Prime Minister of Queen Victoria, what was the opinion of the Prime Minister of George III? How did Burke, political philosopher, and philosophical politician, regard the government which resulted from the Revolution he had so insistently endorsed? When the Colonies wrested independence from the Crown, what was the horoscope for the new nation cast by English statesman, thinker, pamphleteer, penny-a-liner? What did they think of the experiment under the Articles of Confederation? While the Constitutional Convention was sitting in Philadelphia, what were the newspapers saying in London? When the fruit of the Convention's deliberations was published and put into practice, what was the general judgment on the federal, presidential, republican scheme, then somewhat of a new thing under the sun?<br><br>It is the purpose of these pages to answer these questions. They present an anthology of opinion.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are inten