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year, was captured at the fall of Charleston in 178o and was kept in close confinement until 1782, when he was exchanged . In 1783 he was commissioned a See also:

BREVET (a diminutive of the Fr. bref)

brevet brigadier-See also:

general in the See also:

CONTINENTAL

continental See also:

army . He was an influential member of the constitutional See also:

convention of 1787, advocating the counting of all slaves as a basis of See also:

REPRESENTATION

representation and opposing the abolition of the slave-See also:

trade . He opposed as " impracticable " the See also:

election of representatives by popular See also:

VOTE

vote, and also opposed the See also:

PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment of senators, who, he thought, should be men of See also:

WEALTH

wealth . Subsequently Pinckney See also:

BORE

bore a prominent part in securing the ratification of the Federal constitution in the South Carolina convention called for that purpose in 1788 and in framing the South Carolina See also:

State Constitution in the convention of 1790 . After the organization of the Federal See also:

government, President See also:

Washington offered him at different times appointments as See also:

ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of tee which prepared a See also:

plan for amending the articles of confederation . In 1787 he was a delegate to the Federal constitutional convention, and on the same See also:

day (May 29) on which See also:

Edmund See also:

Randolph (q.v.) presented what is known as the See also:

Virginia plan, Pinckney presented a draft of a constitution which is known as the Pinckney plan . Although the Randolph resolutions were made the basis on which the new constitution was framed, Pinckney's plan seems to have been much See also:

DRAWN

drawn upon .

Furthermore, Pinckney appears to have made.valuable suggestions regarding phrasing and matters of detail . On the 18th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August he introduced a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of resolutions, and to him should probably be accredited the authorship of the substance of some See also:

THIRTY

thirty-one or thirty-two provisions of the constitution.' Pinck- The " Pinckney Plan " has been the subject of considerable discussion . When, in 1818, See also:

John See also:

Quincy See also:

Adams was preparing the See also:

journal of the convention for publication and discovered that the Pinckney plan was missing, he wrote to Pinckney for a copy, and Pinckney sent him what he asserted was either a copy of his See also:

ORIGINAL

original draft or a copy of a draft which differed from the original in no essentials . But as this was found to See also:

bear a close resemblance to the draft reported by the committee of detail, See also:

Madison and others, who had been members of the convention, as well as historians, treated it as See also:

SPURIOUS

spurious, and for years Pinckney received little See also:

CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit for his See also:

WORK

work in the convention . Later historians, however, notably J . See also:

Franklin See also:

Jameson and See also:

Andrew C . McLaughlin, have accredited to him the See also:

SUGGESTION

suggestion of a number of provisions of the constitution as a result of their efforts to reconstruct his original plan chiefly from his speeches, or alleged speeches, and from certain papers of See also:

James See also:

Wilson, a member of the committee of detail, one of which papers is believed to be an outline of the Pinckney plan . See J . F . Jameson, " Studies in the See also:

HISTORY

History of the Federal Convention of 1787," in the See also:

ANNUAL

Annual See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

Report of the American See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Association for 1902, vol. i.; A . C . McLaughlin, " Outline of Pinckney's Plan for a Constitution," in The Nation, See also:

APRIL

April 28, 1904; an See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article entitled " See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

Sketch of Pinckney's Plan for a Constitution," in the American Historical See also:

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review for See also:

JULY

July 1904; and C .

C . See also:

Nott, The See also:

MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

Mystery of the Pinckney See also:

DRAUGHT (from the common Teutonic word " to draw "; cf. Ger. 7'racht, load; the pronunciation led to the variant form " draft," now confined to certain specific meanings)

Draught (New See also:

York, 1908), an See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt by a former See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief-justice of the U.S . See also:

Court of Claims to prove thatney was president of the State Convention of 1790 that framed a new constitution for South Carolina, was See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of the state from 1789 to 1792, a member of the state House of Representatives in 1792–1796, and again governor from 1796 to 1798 . From 1799 to 18oi he was a member of the See also:

UNITED

United States Senate . He entered public See also:

LIFE

life as a Federalist, but later became the See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader in organizing the Democratic-Republican party in his state, and contributed largely to the success of Thomas See also:

Jefferson in the presidential election of 1800 . By Jed'erson's appointment he was American See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister to See also:

Spain from i8or to 18os . In general his See also:

MISSION

mission was a distinct failure, his arrogance and indiscretions finally causing the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish government to See also:

REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request his recall . He was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1805, was again governor of South Carolina from i8o6 to i8o8, in 1810–1814 was once more a member of the state House of Representatives, in which he defended President Madison's war policy, and from 1819 to 1821 was a member of the See also:

NATIONAL

National House of Representatives, in which he opposed the See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri See also:

COMPROMISE (pronounced compromize; through Fr. from Lat. compromittere)

Compromise in a brilliant speech . He died at Charleston, South Carolina, on the 29th of October 1824 . His son, See also:

HENRY See also:

LAURENS, HENRY (1724–1792)

LAURENS PINCKNEY (1794-1863), was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1816–1832, founded in 1819 and edited for fifteen years the Charleston See also:

Mercury, the See also:

GREAT

great exponent of state's rights principles, and was a member of the National House of Representatives in 1833–1837 .

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