Charles Pinckney claimed to have laid a draft constitution before the 1787 Convention, and the version he later produced was attacked, by Madison among others, as a fabrication. Nott, a former chief justice of the Court of Claims, examines the case like a trial: the document in the State Department, the charge of fraud, Madison as witness and advocate, the alleged plagiarisms and newly found papers of James Wilson.
A lawyerly detective story about the founding text, for readers interested in how the Constitution was actually drafted. Download the free EPUB.