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Говернер Моррис — американский государственный деятель, один из Отцов-основателей США. Представлял штат Пенсильвания на Конституционном конвенте 1787 года, был одним из подписавших Статьи Конфедерации, также был в числе подписавших Конституцию, являясь также автором большей части её текста и полностью написавшим её преамбулу.. В эпоху, когда большинство американцев считали себя гражданами своих отдельных штатов, Моррис выдвигал мысль о том, чтобы быть гражданами единого союза штатов.. Кроме того, он был одним из немногих на Филадельфийском конвенте, кто воспротивился существованию рабства.

Родился в Нью-Йорке в зажиточной семье, представители которой занимали государственные должности. Поступил в Королевский колледж в Нью-Йорке в 1764 году, когда ему было всего 12 лет. Изучал право, окончил колледж в 1768 году, получил степень магистра в 1771 году.

Большинство его родственников и друзей были лоялистами, однако Моррис, когда началась Американская революция, принял сторону патриотов. Он служил в ополчении, избирался в конгресс штата и Континентальный конгресс. После поражения на выборах в Палату представителей в 1779 году переехал в Филадельфию, где работал адвокатом. На Филадельфийском конвенте брал слово чаще любого другого. Отстаивал создание сильного федерального правительства, которым должна будет руководить состоятельная элита.

В 1780 году потерял ногу при не выясненных до конца обстоятельствах: официально утверждалось, что это произошло в результате полученной при крушении экипажа травмы, но было также предположение, что он неудачно выпрыгнул из окна кареты, где находился с любовницей, спасаясь от её мужа.. Работал в различных комиссиях и был основным автором окончательного текста Конституции. После конвента 10 лет жил в Европе. Некоторое время занимал должность сенатора, но вскоре ушёл в отставку. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Январь 1752 – 6. Ноябрь 1816
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“Are they men? Then make them citizens, and let them vote”

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Gouverneur Morris

Debate at the Constitutional Convention http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1909&layout=html#chapter_112488 (August 8 1787)
1780s
Контексте: Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens, and let them vote. Are they property? Why, then, is no other property included? The houses in this city are worth more than all the wretched slaves who cover the rice swamps of South Carolina. The admission of slaves into the Representation when fairly explained comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the Coast of Africa, and in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondages, shall have more votes in a Government instituted for protection of the rights of mankind, than the Citizen of Pennsylvania or New Jersey who views with a laudable horror, so nefarious a practice.

“I had the pleasure to acknowledge yours of the first of Au gust by a courier, who left this city a few hours after I received it. I hope this will find you well and happy in London. The young gentleman whom I mentioned to you as being about to come hither is arrived, so that we must wait for another conveyance for the packet. In the mean time be so kind as to let me know your address in London. Mine is Rue de la Planche, No. 488.”

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Gouverneur Morris

1790s, First Letter to Thomas Pinckney (1792)

“Every Society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted.”

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Gouverneur Morris

August 9 1797
1780s

“It is not easy to be wise for all times, not event for the present much less for the future; and those who judge the past must recollect that, when it was the present the present was future”

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Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris to Robert Walsh ( February 5, 1811 http://www.bgdlegal.com/clientuploads/Publications/Publications/John%20Bush%20-%20Gouverneur%20Morris.pdf)
1810s

“In adopting a republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better or for worse, but what a few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all of it bad qualities. Neither ingratitude, therefore, nor slander can disappoint expectation nor excite surprise. If, in arduous circumstances, the voice of my country should call for my services, and i have the well founded belief, that they can be useful, they shall certainly be rendered; but I hope that no such circumstances will arise and in the mean time, 'pleas'd let me trifle away.”

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Gouverneur Morris to John Dickinson ( May 23, 1803 http://www.bgdlegal.com/clientuploads/Publications/Publications/John%20Bush%20-%20Gouverneur%20Morris.pdf)
1800s

“We have had here within these few days some serious scenes, at which I am not surprised, because I foresaw not only a struggle between the two corps, which the constitution had organized, viz. the executive (so called) and the legislative. But I was convinced that the latter would get the better. Such is the natural, and indeed the necessary order of things. It is nevertheless a painful reflection, that one of the finest countries in the world should be so cruelly torn to pieces. The storrn which lately raged is a little subsided, but the winds must soon arise again, and perhaps from the same, perhaps from another quarter. But that is of but little consequence, since in every case we must expect a little rage and devastation. A man, attached to his fellow men, must see with the same distress the woes they suffer, whether arising from an army or from a mob, and whether those by whom they are inflicted speak French or German.”

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Gouverneur Morris

1790s, First Letter to Thomas Pinckney (1792)

“Whenever I go anywhere I find persons in humble situations who smile at me and wish me well. I smile back and wish them well. It is because at some time or other I have tipped them. To me the system has never been an annoyance but a delightful opportunity for the exercise of tact and judgment.”

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Gouverneur Morris

Bohemian San Francisco, Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes—The Elegant Art of Dining http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9464/pg9464.html, 1914, by Clarence E. Edwords
1810s

“An American has a stronger sympathy with this country than any other observer, and nourished as he is in the very bosom of liberty, he cannot but be deeply afflicted to see that in almost every event, this struggle must terminate in despotism. Yet such is the melancholy spectacle, which presents itself to my mind, and with which it has long been occupied. I eanestly wish and pray, that events may prove all my reasonings to have been fallacious, and all my apprehensions vain. I am, &c.”

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Gouverneur Morris

1790s, First Letter to Thomas Pinckney (1792)