The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCXXXVII

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ⅭⅭⅩⅩⅩⅦ. Charles Pinckney to Rufus King.[1]

Charleston, January 26, 1789.

You know I always preferred the election by the legislature, to that of the people, & I will now venture to pronounce that the mode which you & Madison & some others so thoroughly contended for & ultimately carried is the greatest blot in the constitution[2]—of this however more hereafter.

  1. C.R. King, Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, Ⅰ, 359.
  2. See ⅭⅭⅩⅩⅩⅧ below.