The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787

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Excerpt from The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787: An Effort to Trace the Origin and Development of Each Separate Clause From Its First Suggestion in That Body to the Form Finally ApprovedWhen my work was very nearly done, my attention was called to the draft of a constitution in Edmund Randolph's handwriting, which is treated of by Mr. Moncure D. Conway in Scribner's Magazine and in his Life of Edmund Randolph, and is now reproduced in fac-simile in this book. I was at once satisfied for the reasons detailed at length in a note upon the subject - that this paper was quite different from that which Mr. Conway considered it, and that it was a relic of very great interest and of some historical importance. I accordingly proceeded to ascertain in whose hands the original was preserved, and soon found it to be in the possession of Mrs. St. George Tucker Campbell, of this city, a great-granddaughter of George Mason. With her kind permission, I have had it reproduced. It serves to illustrate the gradual growth of many of the separate clauses, and to show how they were evolved step by step. How it came to be among the papers of George Mason, where it was found, is not known but, for my part, I do not think it unlikely that he had a great part in drawing it. Randolph was evidently much in¿uenced in the Con vention by Mason's views.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.