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1665 T. Mall Offer of Farther Help 92 Your proper sin, or constitution-evil.

1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 8 His constitution sins, his most prevalent sins.

1795 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 27 May (1812) I. 270 The Honourable Gentleman is a sort of constitution-monger..he declared..that he would give to France the same constitution as that of America.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 41 Planners and constitution-makers.

1820 Deb. Congress 1st Sess. I. 945 Nineteen out of twenty of our agricultural citizens know better the art of constitution-making than the best methods of raising cabbages.

1833 J. S. Mill Let. 9 Mar. (1910) I. 39 Our Utilitarian Radicals..will no longer rely upon the infallibility of Constitution-mongering.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. vii. 438 Arrange it, Constitution-build it, sift it through Ballot-Boxes as thou wilt.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 316 No ballot-box, parliamentary eloquence, voting, constitution-building.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 372 Theoretical constitution-builders.

1849 J. S. Mill in Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. 51 42 The presence of such checks, not their absence, would have been the novelty in constitution-making.

1875 A. Helps Organiz. Daily Life 124 The failure of constitution-mongers like the Abbé Sièyes, who are sublimely indifferent to the state of facts around them.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin 185 However, the time for real Constitution-making had not yet come.