The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . 79 and urged that overy man should sign. Blount was won over by theaiTibiguity of the forin proposed for attestation, and he agreed toattest the fact that the Constitution was the unanimous act of thestates in the convention fl). Gerry, Llason, and I^andolph, the otherrecalcitrant members, however, persisted in their determinationnot to sign. The remaining members who were present signed theengrossed copy of the Constitution, and on September 17 the conven-tion adjourned sine die. fl) ^arrand, II, 64 «0 VI. Conclusion. It is now poSvSible
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . 79 and urged that overy man should sign. Blount was won over by theaiTibiguity of the forin proposed for attestation, and he agreed toattest the fact that the Constitution was the unanimous act of thestates in the convention fl). Gerry, Llason, and I^andolph, the otherrecalcitrant members, however, persisted in their determinationnot to sign. The remaining members who were present signed theengrossed copy of the Constitution, and on September 17 the conven-tion adjourned sine die. fl) ^arrand, II, 64 «0 VI. Conclusion. It is now poSvSible to look back over the precedingthree and a hair months, and to pick out the salient features ofMorriss work in the convention. Vfe find him coming to the convention while yet ayoung man, but better prepared for the work before hiro than most ofhis colleagues. He was a lawyer. He had had experience in thelegislative and executive branches of both the state nationalgovernments, and better than that, experience in one state constitu-tionnl convention. He was a student of political science, and hecombined a practical knowledge of his ov;n and past governmentswith a fair insight into the constitutional theories on which thosegovernments were founded. He cam^e to the convention an intimiatefriend oftwo of its most important members, Alexander Hamiltonand Oeorge ;7ashington. Morris had various class and sectional in-terests T/hich in a large part guided his actions, but we find thathis class and special interests were mu-^n less influential in his
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