George Mason on Elected Senators

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"Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves
in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than
of your state."

-- George Mason (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,
14 June 1788)

Reference: The Debates of the Several State..., Elliot, vol. 3
(405)