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...first rendezvous, Hamilton simply did not report the meeting at all. The memorandums he submitted of later meetings, maintains Boyd, were nothing but "gross misrepresentations." Hamilton's indication that the British favored alliance he calls "deliberate distortion," and his notation discrediting the performance of U.S. Minister to London Gouverneur Morris was "libel...
...Morrisania Church in The Bronx stands as one of New York's finest examples of 19th century Gothic architecture. Its façade bears a plaque noting that Philanthropist Gouverneur Morris II built the church in memory of his mother and that Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first Gouverneur Morris, who drafted the Constitution, are buried there. Nowadays no one notices the plaque, and the limestone structure is in bad repair. Once fashionable and famous, St. Ann's parish is today in the heart of one of the city's toughest...
PAUL J. SMITH Gouverneur...
...nations allied against France, and imprisoned at Olmütz in Austria. Now began Adrienne's real struggle. The revolutionary regime confiscated most of the family property; her sister, mother and grandmother died under the guillotine. Adrienne herself was saved only by the intervention of U.S. Minister Gouverneur Morris, who warned that her death would anger the U.S. With the help of a later U.S. envoy, James Monroe, Adrienne was finally released from her French prison and promptly set out to join her husband in his Austrian one. She collected her two daughters (her son, George Washington...
Your article refers to the motion of Gouverneur Morris, defeated in the Constitutional Convention, providing that no treaty would be binding "which is not ratified by law." That was not the "Bricker Amendment" of 1787. It was the part of wisdom to vote it down, because Morris' motion was applicable to all treaties. My amendment requires congressional implementation only of those treaties that become effective as "internal law," and to that extent alone. The very first section of the Constitution reads...