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title:“Charles Pinckney to Rufus King”
authors:Charles Pinckney
date written:1789-1-26
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Pinckney, Charles. "Letter to Rufus King." The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Vol. 3. Ed. Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. Print.

Charles Pinckney to Rufus King (January 26, 1789)

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 constitution1 — of this however more hereafter.
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  • 1 See CCXXXVIII below.

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