- A French diplomat: "Even in Europe [never before] an assembly more respectable for talents, knowledge, disinterestedness, and patriotism."
Thomas Jefferson wrote that the Convention were a "collection of demigods." Similarly, a French diplomat remarked that "
It is a big meeting of many knowledgeable and patriotic people try to write a blueprint for a country
- George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Hamilton, James Whilson and Gouverneur Morris,etc were in attendance
