Gouverneur Morris

Evenwel v. Abbott: The Court Shanks Its Punt on “One Person, One Vote” (The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016

(Source ... Note from the Editor.. This article criticizes the Supreme Court's recent decision in Evenwel v ... When Gouverneur Morris proposed to the Constitutional Convention that suffrage in the House be based on a uniform national standard, rather than up to the states, Oliver Ellsworth quickly responded that '[t]he States are the best Judges of the circumstances and temper of their own people,' and the proposal was ultimately voted down....

It was 229 years ago today the Constitutional Convention began (National Constitution Center)

Edit Public Technologies 25 May 2016

(Source. National Constitution Center). It was 229 years ago the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia started in earnest and the first votes were taken at what is now called Independence Hall ... According to James Madison's notes, among the other delegates in the room were James Wilson, Rufus King, Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris, George Read, George Mason and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney ... Related Stories on Constitution Daily ... (noodl....

Library Leads Hunt for “Mostly Lost” Films (The Library of Congress)

Edit Public Technologies 18 May 2016

(Source. The Library of Congress). Press contact. Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456. Public contact. Rachel Parker, (202) 707-0934. Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov. May 18, 2016. Library Leads the Hunt for 'Mostly Lost' Films. Fifth Annual Silent-Film Identification Workshop ... 12.30 p.m ... Based upon 'The Right to Live' by Gouverneur Morris, 'That Model From Paris' was directed by Louis J ... Kiss....

Library’s June Films Spotlight Prince, Marilyn Monroe (The Library of Congress)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016

(Source. The Library of Congress). Press contact. Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456. Public contact. Rob Stone (202) 707-0851. Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov. May 17, 2016 ... 'Love Happy' ... Also featured in the cast are Morris Day and Clarence Williams III ... Based upon the short story 'The Right to Live' by Gouverneur Morris, 'That Model From Paris' was directed by Louis J. Gasnier ... # # #....

‘Vinyl’ is about the early days of hip-hop, too

Edit New York Post 20 Feb 2016

In the pilot episode of the new HBO series “Vinyl,” Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) is desperately trying to move his record label into the future with a promising new punk band. But if you blinked, you may have missed him pulling up briefly to 1520 Sedgwick Ave ... The Sedgwick Avenue scenes were shot at another Bronx location — the Gouverneur Morris Houses at 489 E. 169th St ... ....

Hoover Co-hosts Conference on Peruvian Politics and History (Hoover Institution)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Feb 2016

(Source. Hoover Institution) ... Kein, Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University, former director of Stanford Center for Latin American Studies, and research fellow and Latin American Curator at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, as well as by professor Charles Walker of the history department at University of California, Davis, and director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas ... Original Document....

The man who wrote the words “We The People”

Edit Yahoo Daily News 31 Jan 2016

It was Gouverneur Morris who put the finishing touches on the Constitution in 1787, and gave the words “We The People” to all Americans ... Morris lived an interesting and well-rounded life. Born on January 31, 1752 in what is now the Bronx, Morris was part of a wealthy family in New York ... Also in 1780, Morris lost a leg in a carriage accident ... Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.”....

The man who wrote the words “We The People” (National Constitution Center)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Jan 2016

It was Gouverneur Morris who put the finishing touches on the Constitution in 1787, and gave the words 'We The People' to all Americans. Morris lived an interesting and well-rounded life. Born on January 31, 1752 in what is now the Bronx, Morris was part of a wealthy family in New York ... Also in 1780, Morris lost a leg in a carriage accident ... Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.'....

A test of the U.S. political system

Edit The Charlotte Observer 23 Jan 2016

The 2016 U.S ... The arrangement the U.S. wound up with was advocated by Pennsylvania delegate Gouverneur Morris, and, James Madison later recalled, “was not exempt from a degree of the hurrying influence produced by fatigue and impatience.” Buckley found evidence that most delegates thought the election of a president would in most cases devolve to the Congress because the Electoral College wouldn’t be able to produce a final decision ... ....

Remembering the day Pennsylvania ratified the Constitution (National Constitution Center)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Dec 2015

(Source. National Constitution Center). December 12 is a big anniversary for those of us in Pennsylvania. It's the day the James Wilson led an emotional effort to approve the proposed U.S ... The convention was called in what we know today as Independence Hall on November 21, 1787 ... During the 1787 Constitutional convention, Wilson was a powerful advocate for the new, expansive document, along with James Madison and Gouverneur Morris ... (noodl....

How New York City could have looked like Paris

Edit New York Post 08 Nov 2015

We’ll never have Paris here in New York. But we could have . . if not for Aaron Burr ... A three-person commission was appointed in 1807, dominated by cranky Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, owner of the vast country estate that is now the Morrisania section of The Bronx. Morris was a practical man, who wanted “Convenience and Utility,” without “supposed Improvements by Circles, Ovals, and Stars .”. Morris got exactly what he wanted ... ....

McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles to Welcome Richard Brookhiser for Public Talk on Nov. ...

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(Source. Mercer University). Richard Brookhiser. MACON - Mercer University's McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles will welcome historian, biographer and journalist Richard Brookhiser for a public lecture on Nov. 11 ... Brookhiser is a popular historian of the founding period, having written a series of biographies on America's founders, including James Madison, Gouverneur Morris, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington ... (noodl....

Hamilton and Jefferson: The Deserving and the Deserter

Edit National Review 31 Oct 2015

As Page Smith argued in his 1978 history of the Constitution — a document Jefferson had nothing to do with and mistrusted — Jefferson essentially promoted a secular-democratic consciousness opposed to the classical-Christian consciousness of most of the Founding Fathers, including Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Marshall, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and the early Madison....