THE I’s had been dotted; the T’s were crossed. The 55 delegates to America’s first and so-far-only constitutional convention had hammered out compromises on the separation of powers, apportionment of seats in the legislature and the future of the slave trade. But on September 15th 1787 George Mason, a plantation owner from Virginia, rose to his feet to object.
我被点缀了；T交叉。美国第一批和仅遵守宪法公约的55名代表抨击了对权力的分离，立法机关中的席位分配以及奴隶贸易的未来的妥协。但是在1787年9月15日，弗吉尼亚州的种植园老板乔治·梅森（George Mason）站起来反对。
