Jonathan Dayton

This was the last opportunity of providing for its liberty and happiness, and he could not comprehend renouncing a just government within reach out of attachment to the phantom of state sovereignty.

Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey, at 26 the youngest man in the convention, answered the luminary of the present age to his face.

When assertion is given to proof, he said, and terror substituted for argument, they would have no effect, however eloquently spoken.

As for the system of the table, I consider the system on the table as a novelty, an amorphous monster, and was persuaded that it never would be received by the people.

William Patterson.

Jonathan Dayton.

Pennsylvania.

Benjamin Franklin.

The prisoners sat the chair down at the statehouse door, and the oldest delegate went in to take his seat.

The youngest man who would sit down in the room, Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey, was 26.

He had been a captain in the Continental Army at 19.

Between Captain Dayton and Dr. Franklin lay 55 years, a gap wider than the age of the country itself.

It really is an assembly of demigods.

William Pierce of Georgia, the same Major Pierce who went pale over a dropped paper and a missing pocket copy, kept something in his private papers besides his notes of the debates.

He wrote out a sketch of every man in the room, what each one looked like, how he spoke, what he was worth in debate, and what he wasn't.

A portrait gallery of the convention, drawn from a seat inside it.