Pinckney's Plan in the Committee of Detail
Commentary
In his essay 'The Committee of Detail', William Ewald suggests that there is great uncertainty as to when this rough outline of the Pinckney Plan was produced, and by whom: while Farrand includes the document, found among the Wilson papers, in his Committee of Detail records, Ewald wonders if the copy was not produced some months earlier, at the time when Pinckney's plan was originally introduced into the Convention. There is, in any case, little certainty surrounding the origin or purpose of this document.
Charles Pinckney's Plan - Outline from Wilson's Papers was proposed
on 04 August 1787
Pinckney's Plan in the Committee of Detail
Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention)
Cite as: Grace Mallon, ‘Pinckney's Plan in the Committee of Detail’ in Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention), Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2016), item 32.