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Forgotten Founder - The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney
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University of South Carolina Press
Sivumäärä: 200 sivua
Asu: Kovakantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2004, 31.07.2004 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
Charles Pinckney (1757-1824) was born into one of South Carolina's most prominent families and quickly became one of the state's most influential figures. Born in Charleston, Pinckney grew up there and on his father's plantations in the Carolina lowcountry. He served in the state militia during the American Revolution and was captured at the surrender of Charleston in 1780. Later he attended the Confederation Congress in 1784. But he is best known for his representation of the Palmetto State at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, where he presented one of the few complete drafts of government for the new nation. The ""Pinckney Draft"" of the Constitution would play an integral part in the controversy that swirled around him, giving Pinckney's political enemies ammunition for their charges of arrogance and vanity, and perplexing historians for nearly a century. Within thirteen years of the convention, Pinckney forsook his heritage and broke with his family - most of whom were staunch Federalists - to support the Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson in the pivotal election of 1800. Pinckney's efforts on Jefferson's behalf helped propel the Virginian into the presidency and changed

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