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Early Draft of the Constitution Discovered

By mcbride

(This author will confess that he loves these kind of discoveries!)  It was known that on the back of one draft of the Constitution was another text by James Wilson, but that version stopped abruptly.   The rest of that early draft has now been ?discovered? and may be placed with the other drafts of the Constitution rather than in Wilson?s archives.  ?[The half finished draft was a] ?mystery, Toler thought, until she examined other Wilson papers from the Historical Society’s vault in Philadelphia and found what appeared to be the rest of the draft, titled ?The Continuation of the Scheme.?  The document - one of 21 million in the Historical Society’s collection - was known to scholars, but probably should have been placed with the other drafts? ?This was the kind of moment historians dream about,? said Toler, 30, a lawyer and founding president of the Constitutional Sources Project (www.ConSource.org), a nonprofit organization, based in Washington, that promotes an understanding of and access to U.S. Constitution documents.?

Here is a link to the full article: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20100202_Early_draft_of_the_Constitution_found_in_Phila_.html

 Michael

Full post as published by Texas Lawyer Blog on February 03, 2010 (boomark / email).