Gouverneur Morris

The Executive Provisory Council of the French Republic having requested me to recall Gouverneur Morris, our minister plenipotentiary in France,

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington 1878

Setting out guidelines for the coolers in a 1789 letter to Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped procure the items, Washington wrote that "extravagance would not comport with my own inclination, nor with the example which ought to be set."

Washington Chilled Here: A Wine Cooler's Tale Ellen Gamerman 2011

Gouverneur Morris, the author of the Constitution's "We the People" preamble and a lifelong ladies man, wrote in his diary of Dolley Madison's low cut-dresses and pondered whether Mrs. Madison might be "amenable to seduction."

In Brief: American History 2011

To date the publisher has brought out five compact biographies of "forgotten Founders," introducing readers to Maryland's redoubtable Catholic founder, Charles Carroll, and irascible states-rights advocate Luther Martin, New York's Gouverneur Morris, and great Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene.

Uniting the Nation Gerald J. Russello 2011

Gouverneur Morris had engineered more complicated documents than a city outline; he had helped to frame, and later signed, the United States Constitution.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

Gouverneur Morris of New York, his real name, not the governor of New York, stated, The aristocracy will grow out of the House of Representatives.

HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010

As Gouverneur Morris phrased it, Washington knew "how best to use the rays" of intellect emitted by the personalities at his command.

The Feuding Fathers Ron Chernow 2010

While it is true that Gouverneur Morris is given credit for making the crucial change from a mention of each individual state to the inclusion of the words “United State,” I maintain that Wilson and perhaps other members of the Committee of Detail, made the equally crucial first insertion of the phrase that has become American creed.

What constitutes a draft of the U.S. Constitution? « Fondly, Pennsylvania: Notes from Archives and Conservation 2010

Gouverneur Morris, one of the most important Founding Fathers, believed that the U.S. Constitution would not work in France because the French had clear your throat “low moral character.”

Broke Glenn Beck 2010

Of the sixteen signers for whom Lincoln could not find direct voting behavior—including “Dr. Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris”—all but one were known to oppose slavery.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010