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The Grand Convention - The Committee of Detail
On July 26th the convention handed 4 months of resolutions to 5 men and adjourned. On August 6th it got back a constitution — 7 pages, 23 articles, wide margins for the fight. This is the grind of August, told the way the room actually lived it: everything at once. The taxing power ending 10 years of begging circulars on an ordinary Thursday, while 2 days’ walk of clauses away Gouverneur Morris demands 14 years of citizenship for a senator — “7 years must be applied to learn to be a Shoe Maker” — in a room where the Constitution’s own draftsman was born in Scotland. Franklin’s rogues and…
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