{"id":1452,"date":"2023-06-10T22:13:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T02:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print\/volume-21-issue-1-winter-2023\/gouverneur-morris-and-contemporary-america-the-scriveners-ageless-views\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:38","slug":"gouverneur-morris-and-contemporary-america-the-scriveners-ageless-views","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-21-issue-1-winter-2023\/gouverneur-morris-and-contemporary-america-the-scriveners-ageless-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Gouverneur Morris and Contemporary America: The Scrivener&#8217;s Ageless Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">In his classic study of the Constitutional Convention, <span class=\"s2\"><i>The Grand Convention<\/i><\/span>, Clinton Rossiter identified four delegates whom he judged to be indispensable: James Madison, James Wilson, George Washington, and Gouverneur Morris. Morris, Rossiter admitted, would be a surprising choice to those who find his sense of humor too close to frivolity. But, he argued, Morris\u2019s speeches, his com-mittee work, and his final draft made a contribution that was \u201cmagnificent.\u201d<span class=\"s3\">1 <\/span>Anyone who reads Madison\u2019s notes of the convention, or compares the wordiness of the draft of the Committee of Detail with the clarity and concision of the draft Morris produced for the Committee of Style, is bound to agree.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/06\/GT-GLPP230004.pdf\">Gouverneur Morris and Contemporary America: The Scrivener&#8217;s Ageless Views<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his classic study of the Constitutional Convention, The Grand Convention, Clinton Rossiter identified four delegates whom he judged to be indispensable: James Madison, James Wilson, George Washington, and Gouverneur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":1430,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452\/revisions\/1873"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}