Well, my memory is decades out of date and from a low-population state. Still, I remember spending a lot of time on how smart this was and how well it's worked

Well, my memory is decades out of date and from a low-population state. Still, I remember spending a lot of time on how smart this was and how well it's worked. "Greatest civic invention since democracy itself" was a bit of hyperbole, but there was definitely a lot of emphasis on how good the compromise was.