The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . work in the establishmentof the legislative and executive departments . He was never infavor of a purely popular government, and when the New York consti-tution was being considered,he wrote to Hamilton that he believedpopular elective governments unstable from tneir very nature (4) ,He came to the convention seeJ^ing this element of staDiiixy, wuicnhe believed could oe best secured under an aristocratic government. Morris economic interests were also instrumental inshaping his course. Ihese interests arose aiier ne had moved awayfrom the lana
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . work in the establishmentof the legislative and executive departments . He was never infavor of a purely popular government, and when the New York consti-tution was being considered,he wrote to Hamilton that he believedpopular elective governments unstable from tneir very nature (4) ,He came to the convention seeJ^ing this element of staDiiixy, wuicnhe believed could oe best secured under an aristocratic government. Morris economic interests were also instrumental inshaping his course. Ihese interests arose aiier ne had moved awayfrom the class oi uew York and had become connectedwith the commercial classes of Pennsylvania. -Beard finds thatMorris economic interests were represented by his holdings inmercantile establishments, manufacturing, and shipping, all holdings fl) Jay, Writings f Johnston ed.). Ill, 104. (E) Beard, Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, 151. f3) Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention, III, 499. (4) Hamilton,Y/orks f Hamilton ed) , I, 40 in personalty as opposed to agrarian holdings (1), It was the agra-rian class which was behind the paper money movements, and Morrishad begun his opposition to them before he v/as ont of his combated a paper money bill in the New York Assembly in 1769,and he kept np his opposition to similar bills throughout the yearsof frenzied paper money legislation. Madison in his letter toSparks quoted above,mentions Morris allegiance to property inter-ests. His support of property was well shown in the Nev^r YorkConstitutional Convention, ^-^ere he secured freehold suffrage inthe face of radical proposals to remove all restrictions on suffrageThe class of personalty holders that Beard lay so much emphasis on,the holders of public securities, did not list Morris as one oftheir number (2). Morris location in the states, that is,in the northand in a large stpte, was also influential in determining the in-terests that he represented. His
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