The Founders' Constitution: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

This bigraphy details the life of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney from his childhood to his time as a lawyer and politician, particularly his time as ambassador to France.

The University of Chicago provides thousands of primary source documents concerning the diverse contents of the Constitution. Documents underlying the proposed Constitution, as well as documents of the time debating the proposed...

The original text of a statement by John Tyler, member of the Virginia Constitutional Ratifying Convention, on his opposition to the new Constitution.

The original text from the University of Chicago Press of a 1780 letter from Alexander Hamilton to James Duane, who later became a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, on the weaknesses of the existing U.S. government under the...

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney is the cousin of Charles Pinckney; both were Framers of the Constitution from South Carolina. [1 min. 18 secs.]

A list of links to texts of original documents written by participants in the Constitutional Conventions, relating to their attempts to create an acceptable national constitution. Organized in chronological order.

The complete original text of the revolutionary state constitution of Virginia adopted in June 1776.

The complete, original text of the Massachusetts State Constitution as adopted in March, 1780.

Read the words of John Adams at the Constitutional Convention where he is debating the meaning of "the people" in the Constitution.

The original text of official Resolutions by members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 during the debate creating a new national U.S. Constitution.