Plans Presented to the U.S. Consitutional Convention

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Plans Presented to the U.S. Consitutional Convention

Transcriptions of the differing versions of the Virginia Plan, Pinckney Plan, New Jersey Plan, Hamilton Plan, and others, for comparison.

Cite as: Kieran Hazzard, Plans Presented to the U.S. Consitutional Convention , Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, accessed 2024)

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The Convention
U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2019 Edition)
U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)
Committee of the Whole House

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Hamilton Plan (Draft) - (text)

Hamilton's papers contain his draft notes for his speech of 18 June 1787, where he laid out his plan for a constitution. Farrand included these in his volume, along with the various reports of what Hamilton said, recorded by Madison, King, Lansing,...

Hamilton Plan (Madison's Version) - (text)

APPENDIX F: THE HAMILTON PLAN Farrand writes: "In connection with his important speech of June 18, Hamilton read a sketch of a plan of government which “was meant only to give a more correct view of his ideas, and to suggest the amendments which he...

Hamilton Plan (Redraft) - (text)

New Jersey Plan - (text)

APPENDIX E: THE NEW JERSEY PLAN OR PATERSON RESOLUTIONS Farrand writes: "When the Convention, in Committee of the Whole was evidently coming to a favorable conclusion in its consideration of the Virginia Plan, various representatives of the...

New Jersey Plan (Draft) - (text)

Pinckney Plan (Documentary History Version) - (text)

Margie Burns’s article ‘The Mystery of Charles Pinckney's Draft of the U.S. Constitution Revisited’, The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 117, No. 3 (2016), argues that the long searched for original of Pinckney’s Plan was published at the end...

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