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'''Gouverneur Morris''' (January 31, 1752 - November 6, 1816) was a statesman, ambassador, orator, senator, [[Founding Fathers|Founding Father]], and the person most responsible for the wording of [[the Constitution]] as the head of the Committee on Style. He also spoke more at the [[Constitutional Convention]] than any other delegate.
'''Gouverneur Morris''' (January 31, 1752 - November 6, 1816) was a statesman, ambassador, orator, senator, [[Founding Fathers|Founding Father]], and the person most responsible for the wording of [[the Constitution]] as the head of the Committee on Style. He also spoke more at the [[Constitutional Convention]] than any other delegate.
==Quotes==
==Quotes==
* (Gouverneur Morris) was compelled to declare himself reduced to the dilemma of doing injustice to the Southern States or to human nature, and he must therefore do it to the former. For he could never agree to give such encouragement to the slave trade as would be given by allowing them a representation for their negroes, and he did not believe those States would ever confederate on terms that would deprive them of that trade.<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_711.asp Madison Debates, July 11, 1787]</ref>
* (Gouverneur Morris) was compelled to declare himself reduced to the dilemma of doing injustice to the Southern States or to human nature, and he must therefore do it to the former. For he could never agree to give such encouragement to the slave trade as would be given by allowing them a representation for their negroes, and he did not believe those States would ever confederate on terms that would deprive them of that trade.<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_711.asp Madison Debates, July 11, 1787]</ref>
* He ran over the privileges which emigrants would enjoy among us, though they should be deprived of that of being eligible to the great offices of Government; observing that they exceeded the privileges allowed to foreigners in any part of the world; and that as every Society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted.<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_809.asp Madison Debates, August 9, 1787]</ref>
==Further reading==
==Further reading==