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Madison James, Speech to House of Representatives Proposing Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789

Originally, Madison was reluctant to have a Bill of Rights, but he was more for it than opening another Constitutional Convention to tweak the Constitution. He felt strongly that people would ruin the document that they just created. Part of his speech which focuses on these points is the quote, "I should be unwilling to see a door opened for a re-consideration of the whole structure of the government, for a re-consideration of the principles and the substance of the powers given; because I doubt, if such a door was opened, if we should be very likely to stop at that point which would be safe to the government itself." The will back my argument that he was against adjusting the Constitution.