| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. By William Howard Adams. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. xvi, 345 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-09980-0.)
It is difficult to render Gouverneur Morris dull. The author of his native New York's state constitution, he then penned the enduring preamble to the United States Constitution; he railed at the domination of "the Mob" yet crafted the immortal phrase "We, the People." In remarkably few words, Morris reduced the passionate compromises of the Constitutional Convention to concrete legal language in a seamless document. Yet this American Moses is as forgotten as his prose is remembered.	1
Born on a manor of Morrisania in what is now the Bronx, Morris was the son of a judge and grandson of a governor. Graduated from King's College (now Columbia University), he studied law. The youngest of three sons, he scraped along on his legal fees until his mother's death enabled him to buy the manor from his older brother.	. . .

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