"The more one reflects on that wonderful document the more extraordinary appears its birth. Washington felt this at the time, saying it struck him as "little short of a miracle, that the delegates from so many different states … should unite in forming a system of national government, so little liable to well-founded objections." He further said: "It approached nearer to perfection than any government hitherto instituted among men [and was] provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny … than any government [previously devised by] mortals." He later concluded that it came into being under "the invisible hand" of Providence.
The central reason that the delegates were prepared to accept the Constitution and the states subsequently ratified it was that Washington was in charge of the process."
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