The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught

by Charles C. Nott

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Statement of the Case [3]
II. The Draught in the State Department [16]
III. Of the Issue of Fraud [23]
IV. Madison as a Witness [29]
V. Madison as an Advocate [40]
VI. The Position Taken by Madison [58]
VII. The Plagiarisms [65]
VIII. The Improbabilities [85]
IX. The Observations [105]
X. The Silence of Madison [143]
XI. The Wilson and Randolph Draughts [158]
XII. The Committee's Use of the Draught [206]
XIII. What Became of the Draught [225]
XIV. What Pinckney Did for the Constitution [243]
XV. Conclusions on the Whole Case [257]
XVI. Of Pinckney Personally [278]
Appendix
Mr. Charles Pinckney's Draught of a Federal Government [295]
Draught of the Committee of Detail [306]
Index [325]

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