NOUN
- United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816)
How To Use Gouverneur Morris In A Sentence
- In the Washington administration, the Whiskey rebels raised their own flag; in the Adams administration, Virginia questioned federal law and readied the armory at Richmond for self-defense; Gouverneur Morris, the peglegged aristocrat who drafted the Constitution in 1787, scornfully called, a quarter of a century later, for a secession of the north, even at the risk of civil war. America's First Dynasty
