Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworthwas an American lawyer and politician, a revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, United States Senator from Connecticut, and the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. While at the Federal Convention, Ellsworth moved to strike the word National from the motion made by Edmund Randolph of Virginia. Randolph had moved successfully to call the government the National Government of United States. Ellsworth moved that the government should continue to be called the United...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 April 1745
CityWindsor, CT
CountryUnited States of America
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.