Lorianne Updike Toler, lawyer and head of the Constitutional Sources Project in Pennsylvania, has found a rare early draft of the United States Constitution in the hand of James Wilson. It is a major historical and legal find at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
It appears the draft was written by Wilson in the summer of 1787. The handwriting appeared incomplete until the rest of the document was found among Wilson’s other papers. The document was entitled “The Continuation of the Scheme.”
This only the third such draft in Wilson’s hand. Wilson served with John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Gorham, and Oliver Ellsworth as a member of the important Committee of Detail, which refined the words of the Constitution.
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That’s cool. You would never thought that a draft like that could be so important, imagine that was written 1787. If I was the one who’ve found that I might have just throw it.
Great find for sure, and an interesting article.
Well, I’d say the effects of select pieces medical literature has a greater impact on the general populace of the world than the U.S.
I cannot agree in totality. Without the Constitution and Russia’s is very similar to the US’s there would be not need. But in a civilized society, some rules must remain constant in order to maintain stability and order and the medical field is one piece of it.
What would you do without the regulation of electricity? How about when the train industry went bankrupt in the 1870’s? They all must work in tandem to assure that they work in totality.
By the way, I’d put a few scientific treatises and papers ahead of either of them, working on the assumption that important in this contexts in large part means influencing the lives of people. I’d say the effects of select pieces medical literature has a greater impact on the general populace of the world than the U.S. Constitution or the DOI.
I believe was a common derogatory name for Roman Catholics back in the early days of our country….Being as I come from a long line of papists. Thanx for the info.
Your posting i think not new because there are a lot of people have already post it or read it, but it’s okay. Please note this , in your post there are few words that you not edit with carefully after you used Google translate for translate it from your mother language into English about on early draft of constitution found.