The Mystery of the Pinckney DraughtNott, Charles C.
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The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
Nott, Charles C.
Constitutional history -- United States; Pinckney, Charles, 1757-1824
Election of the President.
Madison's strictures on the draught, p. 60
Article VIII does not provide a method, p. 97
The omission not remarkable, p. 98
Choosing by the electoral colleges, p. 77, 133
Observations sustain Article VIII, p. 134
Eligibility of Representatives, etc.
Pinckney on the question, p. 101, 103
Elliott, W. S.
A grandnephew of Pinckney, p. 288
His sketch of Pinckney's life and home; of his library, picture gallery
and garden, p. 288
Ellsworth, Oliver
Did not draught a constitution, p. 165
Contributed nothing to draught of the committee, p. 165
Estoppel.
Characterized by Coke, p. 132
Does not extend to historical students, p. 132
Federalists.
Hamilton and Pinckney were, p. 279
Pinckney the most extreme federalist in the convention, p. 279
Ford, Worthington C.
Publishes Pinckney's letter, p. 5
Framers of the Constitution.
Two of the youngest and their work, p. 264
Franklin, Doctor.
His farewell words to the convention, p. 70
Fraud and Plagiarism.
The question of inexorable, p. 21
Detection probable, p. 24
Temptation small, p. 25
The absence of motive, p. 27, 28
Specifications of plagiarisms, p. 78
Failure of specified charges, p. 79
Not sustained by evidence, p. 275
The charge reduced to an absurdity, p. 195
Gerry of Massachusetts
Opposes election by the people, p. 87
Gilpin, Henry D.
Edits Madison's Journal, p. 5, 29
Gorham of Massachusetts.
A member of the committee of detail, p. 75
Did not attempt to draught a constitution, p. 165
Grimke, Thomas S.
Madison's letter to, p. 35
Habeas Corpus.
The writ of, not to be suspended is in the draught, p. 269
Why the committee did not adopt, p. 270
Hamilton, Alexander.
"Those who pay are the masters," p. 174
His not the style of the Constitution, p. 243
Pierce's description of Hamilton, p. 283
Historical Questions.
Concerning the draught in the State Department, p. 12
Historical Society of N. Y.
Possesses Pinckney's Observations, p. 105
Referred to by Madison, p. 110
Hunt, Gaillard.
Description of the draught, p. 18
Immigration.
Expected and relied upon, p. 170
Massachusetts constitution encourages, p. 169
Impeachment.
In Pinckney draught, p. 211
In the committee draught, p. 211
Jackson, Major Wm.
Elected secretary of the convention, p. 129
His notes on draught, p. 74, 75
His letter to Washington, p. 239
Delivers papers of the convention to Washington, p. 239, 241
Jameson, Professor, J. Franklin.
He discovers two of the Wilson draughts, p. 159, 160
Jay, Chief Justice.
His hand appears in the constitution of New York, p. 243
Jefferson, President.
Madison's letter to, p. 33, 129
Jews.
"The people called Jews" address the convention, p. 241
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