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26 July- 4 August, 1787: The Meeting of the Committee of Detail
Methodology and References
Friday, 08 December 2017
26 July- 4 August, 1787: The Meeting of the Committee of Detail
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- 1 August, 1787: Pierce Butler to Weedon Butler
- 5 August, 1787: James McClurg to James Madison
- 6 August, 1787: George Washington's Diary Entry
- 25 July, 1787: John Jay to George Washington
- 25 July, 1787: Mr. Otto to Comte de Montmorin (French)
- 26 July, 1787: Governor Caswell to R.D. Spaight
- 27 July, 1787: Alexander Martin to Governor Caswell
- 27 July, 1787: George Washington's Diary Entry
- 27 July, 1787: James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson
- 28 July, 1787: James Madison to his father
- Edmund Randolph's Draft of the Constitution (handwritten)
- James Wilson's Draft of the Constitution, Part I (handwritten)
- James Wilson's Draft of the Constitution, Part II (handwritten)
- James Wilson's Second Draft of the Constitution (handwritten)
- Methodology and References
- The Wilson Papers: Historiography Revisited (Again)
- “ Two sets of extracts from the Pinckney Plan” in Wilson Papers
- “Excerpts from the New Jersey and Pinckney Plans” in Wilson Papers
- “Proceedings of the Convention, July 24-26, 1787” by Max Farrand
- “The Continuation of the Scheme” and “Miscellaneous provisions” in Wilson Papers
- “Twenty-Four Referred Resolutions from the Committee of the Whole” in Wilson Papers
Content
Editor used Max Farrand's *Records* as a starting point for gathering documents pertaining to the Committee of Details. Also used William Ewald, "Committee of Detail Documents", The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 135, No. 3 (July 2011), pp. 239-365 and William Ewald, "The Committee of Detail" 28 CONST. COMMENT 197 (2012).
Retained titles given by Ewald to the documents identified by Farrand as Documents I-IX in his *Records* but did not retain the order of documents as such, for clarity. When the Historical Society of Pennsylvania digitized their manuscript copies of Wilson's papers, they chose to collate certain pages, such as parts I and II of Wilson's first draft of the Constitution, in an order incongruous with Farrand and Ewald's methodologies. Each collection item therefore features a link to the digitized primary source, with the corresponding page numbers in the explanation below.
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