Project Gutenberg 2012-09-30 Public domain in the USA. 87 Nott, Charles C. 1827 1916 Nott, Charles Cooper 08033815 The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress.) "The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught" by Charles C. Nott is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book explores the enigmatic contribution of Charles Pinckney, a lesser-known figure in the creation of the U.S. Constitution, focusing on his draught presented at the Constitutional Convention. It delves into the controversies surrounding the authenticity of the draught and its influence on the final Constitution, raising questions about authorship and credit in the founding documents of the United States. At the start of the narrative, the author introduces the central topic by recounting the historical context of Pinckney's draught, which he presented during the Convention but received little acknowledgment from contemporary observers. Nott discusses how the original records were sealed upon the Convention's conclusion, leading to a mysterious absence of the draught for decades. Eventually, intrigue surrounding the document emerges when John Quincy Adams seeks it nearly thirty years later. The initial chapters examine documents from the time and outline the key players, including James Madison, whose views and criticisms of Pinckney's work provide a nuanced perspective on the value and legacy of the draught in the broader historical narrative of American governance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/40904/40904-h/images/titlepage.jpg en Constitutional history -- United States Pinckney, Charles, 1757-1824 JK Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics 468404 468413 2024-09-17T08:48:20.100921 2023-09-18T04:04:26.875986 text/html text/html 463543 2012-10-01T10:07:48 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 177330 2012-10-01T10:07:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 200932 2024-09-17T08:48:28.455855 application/epub+zip 206061 2024-09-17T08:48:21.909879 application/epub+zip 206061 2024-09-17T08:48:21.027887 application/epub+zip 342612 2024-09-17T08:48:32.820818 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291587 2024-09-17T08:48:27.084860 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291763 2022-09-18T17:22:40.952807 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 396767 396548 2024-09-17T08:48:19.191919 2023-09-18T04:04:26.023974 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 396589 2012-10-01T10:07:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 131901 2012-10-01T10:07:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 396580 2012-10-01T10:07:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 131880 2012-10-01T10:07:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20463 2024-09-17T08:48:32.959806 application/rdf+xml 8652 2024-09-17T08:48:21.147873 image/jpeg 1876 2024-09-17T08:48:21.089865 image/jpeg 180817 2024-09-17T08:48:20.135879 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia