"the constitution being perfected by the adoption of these amendments"

Tuesday, January 29. [1811]
Removal of Federal Judges on address of Congress.
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.

  "Mr. Wright.--Believing, as I do, that the Constitution of the United States is not perfect, and as provision is made in the body of the instrument for amending its imperfections in the manner therein prescribed, I feel it an imperious duty to propose an amendment to it. Here let me remark, that its adoption was opposed by the patriots of America, at the time of its ratification, because of omissions important to liberty. It had not guarded against an establishment of religion; it had not secured the right of the people to keep and bear arms; it had not guarded against soldiers being quartered in our houses in time of peace, without our consent, it had not guarded against warrants being issued without oath; it had not guarded against a man's being put to answer without previous indictment; it had not secured the criminal in the trial by jury; it had not secured the trial by jury in cases of common law, and these omissions as due guards to the liberty of the citizens stand recorded in these amendments almost coeval with the instrument. The terms Federal and anti-Federal had their origin in the zeal of the respective parties at that time; the one insisting on its adoption with all these imperfections on its head, while the other insisted on these amendments; and it has always appeared to me, that on the adoption of the amendments that those who were called anti-Federals were really the Federals, the constitution being perfected by the adoption of these amendments. The foregoing amendments test its original imperfection, and I trust will lead this House to a temperate examination of the amendment I now propose to submit.
   "The amendment, sir, is to place the judiciary of the United States on the same foundation that the British judiciary are placed by their laws; by enabling the President, on the joint address of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, to remove a judge."

[ABRIDGMENT OF THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS, FROM 1789 TO 1856. FROM GALES AND SEATON'S ANNALS OF CONGRESS; FROM THEIR REGISTER OF DEBATES; AND FROM THE OFFICIAL REPORTED DEBATES BY JOHN C. RIVES. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE THIRTY YEARS' VIEW. VOL. IV. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY 346 & 348 BROADWAY. 1857.  Pg. 351]

(Robert Wright, (Nov. 20, 1752 – Sept. 7, 1826), studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1773. He served in the Maryland militia during the American Revolutionary War as private, lieutenant, and captain. After the war, he served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1784 to 1786, and as a member of the Maryland State Senate in 1801. Wright was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate on November 19, 1801, for the term commencing March 4, 1801. He resigned from the Senate on Nov. 12, 1806. After HAVING been elected the 12th Governor of Maryland, serving from 1806 to 1809. After his tenure as Governor, he was elected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses to fill a vacancy. He was then re-elected to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from Nov. 29, 1810, to March 3, 1817. And then elected to the Seventeenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1821 to March 3, 1823. In later life, Wright served as district judge of the lower Eastern Shore district of Maryland from 1823 until his death).