After all, my fellow citizens, it is neither extraordinary or unexpected [sic]that the constitution offered for your consideration, should meet with opposition.  It is in the nature of man to pursue his own interest, in preference to the public good; and I do not mean to make any personal reflection, when I add, that it is in the interest of a very numerous, powerful, and respectable body to counteract and destroy the excellent work produced by the late convention.  All the offices of government, and all the appointees for the administration of justice and the collection of the public revenue, which transferred from the individual to the aggregate sovereignty of the states, will necessarily turn the stream of influence and emolument into a new channel.  Every person therefore, who either enjoys, or expects to enjoy, a place of profit under the present establishment, will object to the proposed innovation; not, in truth, because it is injurious to the liberties of his country, but because it affects his schemes of wealth  and consequence.

                                                                                                         --James Wilson, Philadelphia speech, Oct. 6 1787