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To: Congressman Billybob
I trust you, Billybob, I trust you. ; )

Thank you for your input. Your books sound very interesting. But you didn't say yay or nay on Gouverneur Morris and his role in writing the Constitution. Will we meet this rake in your tome?

65 posted on 09/06/2003 12:52:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Regime change in the Courts. - Impeach Activist Judges!)
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To: TigersEye
Morris was on the Committee on Stile, and he was a bit of a rake. The charge of that Committee was to draft the final text from the decisions and instructions already made by and given from the Convention. There is no doubt that the Committee worked from an annotated text. The question is whether that text came from Madison, or Pinckley. (The dcument itself does not survive, only the fact of its existence at one time, and the Constitution that resulted from it.)

Morris will not be in my latest book. It is focused almost 100% on Tom Paine.

Billybob

67 posted on 09/06/2003 3:01:20 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Everyone talks about Congress; time to act on it. www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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