How did James Wilson contribute in the revisions of the U.S. Constitution?

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Answer 1

James Wilson, delegate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was, like James Madison and George Wythe of Virginia, was a scholar who came to the convention understanding how 13 States could share a government of tripartite powers: legislative, judicial, and executive. Wilson, along with the others (and Hamilton) applied such knowledge to the developing Constitution of the Convention.

During debate the question of power of the proposed federal government and in this the old concept of the Confederacy (implying also the proposed Union) was a league of States. James Wilson follow the course he had laid out long before declared that individuals, not States were the objects of government care. Continuing that logic he asked, why should annexing the name of a State give ten thousand men the rights equal to forty thousand under the name of another State? This, he said, was magic not logic.

James Wilson was also the individual who (following Charles Pinckney who proposed that there be a vigorous executive and the Convention following with an agreement for the executive to be named a President) made the suggestion that the President consist of a single person.

There is a great deal more that James Wilson did during the convention but you should do some of this yourself. I usually get paid for this type of work.

Answer 2

James Wilson, a scholar from Edinburgh, laid down in the Constitutional Convention the doctrine discussing whether the State or the people should be represented in the Senate:

"A Citizen of America is a citizen of the general government, and is a Citizen of the particular State in which he may reside. . . . In Forming the general government we must forego our local habits and attachments, lay aside our State connections, and act for the general good of the whole. The general government is not an assemblage of the States, but of individuals."

Basically, he felt that the responsibilty of running the government should lay with an individual and not the states. He brought a different opinion to the convention because many delegates believed that the responsibility should be on a plural executive because they did not want to face the tyranny of a single person in power (the whole King George incident.) He is basically the reason for which we have a president of the United States of America- a single person 'in charge'.

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How did James Wilson contribute in the revisions of the U.S. Constitution?
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