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26 July- 4 August, 1787: The Meeting of the Committee of Detail
Edmund Randolph's Draft of the Constitution (handwritten)
Friday, 27 July 1787
Link below to George Mason papers containing original document in the Library of Congress collections. Randolph's draft was reproduced in facsimile in William Montgomery Meigs, The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Philadelphia, 1900), 317-24. Link to online edition of Meigs for Oxford users: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005907590;view=1up;seq=330.
It was reproduced again in facsimile with accompanying transcriptions by William Ewald and Lorianne Updike Toler in their article "Committee of Detail Documents," p. 264-285. According to William Ewald in "The Committee of Detail," this draft "has a good claim to be the first draft of the Constitution, stricto sensu. It is almost entirely in the hand of Edmund Randolph, with annotations by John Rutledge" (p. 220).
Consource transcription (from Farrand): http://www.consource.org/document/draft-sketch-of-constitution-by-edmund-randolph-1787-7-26/.
We’ve dated this document to 27 July, 1787 based on William Ewald’s judgment that “there can be no doubt that Document IV [Randolph’s draft] dates to late July, for it incorporates the ‘Connecticut compromise’ of July sixteenth” (Ewald, Committee, 221).
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
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Link below to George Mason papers containing original document in the Library of Congress collections. Randolph's draft was reproduced in facsimile in William Montgomery Meigs, The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Philadelphia, 1900), 317-24. Link to online edition of Meigs for Oxford users: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005907590;view=1up;seq=330.
It was reproduced again in facsimile with accompanying transcriptions by William Ewald and Lorianne Updike Toler in their article "Committee of Detail Documents," p. 264-285. According to William Ewald in "The Committee of Detail," this draft "has a good claim to be the first draft of the Constitution, stricto sensu. It is almost entirely in the hand of Edmund Randolph, with annotations by John Rutledge" (p. 220).
Consource transcription (from Farrand): http://www.consource.org/document/draft-sketch-of-constitution-by-edmund-randolph-1787-7-26/.
We’ve dated this document to 27 July, 1787 based on William Ewald’s judgment that “there can be no doubt that Document IV [Randolph’s draft] dates to late July, for it incorporates the ‘Connecticut compromise’ of July sixteenth” (Ewald, Committee, 221).
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