The magazine of American history with notes and queries . delphia upon his return to America,where he became a prominent jurist, and twice was attorney-general ofthe State ; he also for many years was presiding judge over one of thecourts. In 1812 he was the Federal candidate for Vice-President of theUnited States. At the time of the Convention he was thirty-eight yearsof age. James Wilson was forty-five, a Scotchman by birth, but thoroughlyAmerican in all his attachments and sentiments. He had studied at Glas- THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 32 gow, St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and completed hi
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . delphia upon his return to America,where he became a prominent jurist, and twice was attorney-general ofthe State ; he also for many years was presiding judge over one of thecourts. In 1812 he was the Federal candidate for Vice-President of theUnited States. At the time of the Convention he was thirty-eight yearsof age. James Wilson was forty-five, a Scotchman by birth, but thoroughlyAmerican in all his attachments and sentiments. He had studied at Glas- THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 32 gow, St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and completed his legal education in theoffice of John Dickinson, of Delaware. He was a member of the Old Con-gress of 1775, and voted in favor of the Declaration. During the war healways considered the States, with respect to that war, as forming one com-munity, and he did not admit the idea that when the colonies became in-dependent of Great Britain they necessarily became independent of eachother. He was a clear, sagacious, forcible political writer, and a statesman. GEORGE WYTHE. of high order The eighth Pennsylvania delegate was Gouverneur Morris,a New Yorker by birth and ancestry and subsequent residence. He wasone of the younger men, only thirty-five, and one of the most fearless, self-sustained, sharp-witted, clever, versatile and useful of the Framers. Virginias representatives had been chosen with consummate discre-tion* The central figure was Washington. Madison, who had already * The Virginia Delegates were : George Washington, James Madison, George Wythe, EdmundRandolph, George Mason, James Blair and James McClurg. 322 THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION displayed his statesmanship in a multitude, of ways, and was a veterandespite his having seen but thirty-six years, took a prominent part in allthe debates, speaking on every momentous question that came before theConvention.* He had been one of the signers of the Declaration, one ofthe framers of the first constitution of Virginia, a
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