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22 Aug to 17 Sept - Replacing the Last Few Weeks?
by Dr Kieran Hazzard (khazzard)
Cite as: khazzard, ‘22 Aug to 17 Sept - Replacing the Last Few Weeks?’ in Kieran Hazzard, Bilder and Doubts Over Madison's Notes, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2019), item 290.
Bilder and Doubts Over Madison's Notes
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- 5 June - Inferior Courts
- 6 June - The Origins of Federalist 10?
- 7 June - Representation in the Senate
- 8 June - Federal Negative to State Laws
- 21 June - Federal Vs State Government
- 23 June - Ineligibility of Representatives to Public Offices
- 25 June - Editing Pinckney's Speech?
- 26 June - Senatorial Terms
- 29 June - Representation in the House
- 17 July - Presidential Conduct and Impeachment
- 22 Aug to 17 Sept - Replacing the Last Few Weeks?
- 25 August - Madison Against Slavery (1)
- 25 August - Madison Against Slavery (2)
- 17 September - Rewriting the History of the Signing?
Commentary
The last three and a half weeks of the Convention contain some of the most important developments in the framing of the constitution, yet Bilder suggests that Madison’s record of these events may have been altered.
She states that there is “no evidence proves that these sheets were written in August-September 1787.” Instead the evidence points to their being written in late 1789.
The most compelling evidence to Bilder is that Madison incorporated what looks like large parts of text from the Journal into the body of his notes, whereas previously these were clearly made as additions to his earlier writings. There are far fewer corrections and changes to these sheets, and are the notes are written on different paper to previous sessions. This therefore suggests that they were later compositions or replacements.
That said Madison’s Notes for 15 and 17 September, while on this alternative paper, cannot have been copied from the Journal as Jackson did not keep a record on these last two days.
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khazzard