 A good part of the reason for this was that he did not distinguish himself as an orator but worked as much as possible behind the scenes.He was said to have been dominant in his eloquence at the January 1788, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, but later as the "de facto" Senate majority leader he seems to have kept his arguments relatively short and to the point.His written prose could on occasion be tortuous, as best illustrated by the operative sentence in Section 25 of the Judiciary Act (the first of only two sentences).