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The Constitution's Penman - Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter (Hardcover)
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The Constitution's Penman - Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter (Hardcover)
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Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even
fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies' man with a wicked sense
of humor, a staunch opponent of slavery, and an unabashed elitist.
Gouverneur Morris, who has been described as "the most colorful man
in North America" at the time of the founding, was a dominant
figure at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. In fact, he spoke
more often, proposed more motions, and had more motions adopted
than any other delegate. He also put the Constitution into its
final form, choosing the arrangement and much of the wording of its
provisions, not to mention composing the famous preamble ("We the
people of the United States . . .") nearly from scratch. The
Constitution's Penman is the first book to explore the
constitutional vision of this fascinating, neglected, and
influential American.As Dennis Rasmussen deftly shows, some aspects
of Morris's political thought were intriguingly idiosyncratic, such
as his argument that the Senate should be an aristocratic body
whose members would serve life terms without pay. Other aspects of
his vision for America's constitutional order, however, were
astoundingly prescient. Morris saw as clearly as any of the framers
the need for a powerful executive with a popular mandate, the
central role that parties would play in American politics, and the
unfathomable evils that slavery would visit on American life.
Rasmussen demonstrates that it is impossible to fully understand
the Constitution without appreciating the central role that Morris
played in shaping it.
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