The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . of .detail, Morris moved that the Statelegislatures bo left free to select their own modes of ratification,his idea being to facilitate the adoption of the plan(2). Again,however, the convention went on record as favoring ratification byState conventions. was eager to secure speedy ratifications,preferably by the r^eople. -^earing the dilatory methods of Statelegislatures, he offered ai clause requiring the legislatures to pro-vide for conventions as speedily as circuijjstances would was going too far in the way of dictati
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . of .detail, Morris moved that the Statelegislatures bo left free to select their own modes of ratification,his idea being to facilitate the adoption of the plan(2). Again,however, the convention went on record as favoring ratification byState conventions. was eager to secure speedy ratifications,preferably by the r^eople. -^earing the dilatory methods of Statelegislatures, he offered ai clause requiring the legislatures to pro-vide for conventions as speedily as circuijjstances would was going too far in the way of dictation, and the conventionrejected the clause (3), Morris finally was fairly content withthe method of ratification by State convention^,because it wasmore nationalistic than ratification by the State legislatures. Probably Morris most important services in theconvention were as a member of the Committee of Style. This commit-tee was appointed September 8, and was composed of Johnson,Hamilton, fl) ?arrand II, 93. (E) Ibid, II, 476. (3) Ibid, II, Morris, Iladison, and King f 1) . Its duty v/as to revise and arrangethe articles that had been agreed to in oonvention. The conventionhad given snch long-continued and oft-renewed attention to everypart that it would Foem as if there could be no improvement on thelanguage, and that the only change could he in the , much of the phraseology was changed in order that inlater years there might not be the least possibility of ambiguity. This work of molding ideas into definite expressionwas hardly the work of five men; therefore Johnson, who was chair-man, turned the whole thing over to Gouvernour iorris. Morris inlater life wrote: That instrument fthe Constitution) vms Vvrittenby the fingers which v;rite this letter (2), riadison records, Thefinish given to the style and arrangement of the Jonstitution be-long fairly to r;r. Morris (3). It is doubtful whether the workcould have been better done. All equivocal and redun
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