Aliah's+Delegate+Project

=**__Charles Pinckney__**= toc

__Profile Questions__
Question: How about a brief biography? What is your background? Answer: I, Charles Pinckney am from the town of Charleston, South Carolina. I have worked in the constitutional congress; I was there for about four years on an off. I was also an employee at the state legislature, I worked there for about nine years. I very much enjoyed being part of those employments. In my young years I enlisted in the militia and served in the revolutionary war becoming a lieutenant. I served at siege Savannah. I also married Mary Eleanor Laurens. She and I are strong supporters of the larger states. I even created a draft of The Virginia Plan. c Question: Which should be stronger, the state government or the national government? Why? Answer: I am a federalist so I believe that the national government should have more power because; the people of the national government are educated and elected. Those are the people who should should be running our nation not unemployed town folks.

Question: How should we determine the representation of the states in Congress? By population, money, equality...? Answer: I think that we should determine the representation in congress by population. Because the smaller states don’t need as much representation as the larger ones.

Question: Who should vote for the members of the legislature, and why? Answer: I believe people with higher educations and good jobs should vote for legislature. I believe it is important because I would rather not have an unemployed uneducated nobody voting for the people who will be representing our state.

Question: Should we have one or more than one chief executive? Why? Answer: I believe we should have more than one chief executive. I think we should have more than one because we just fought a big war since there was to much power in one persons hands and we didn't like it. We need to have a group of elected people who have to make decisions among themselves.

Question; What kind of powers should the Chief Executive or Executives have? Answer: I believe the chief executive should have a good chunk of power. They should be allowed to make treaties and trade with foreign countries. They should not be able to decide when we want to go into war or who we go into war with.

Question: Who should elect the chief executive(s)? Answer: I think the people should elect the chief. If the votes are tied the supreme court should make the decision. I believe in order to be elected you must have a college education and a good job.

Question: What should be done about slavery in the United States? Should it be kept or outlawed? Answer: I myself am pro-slavery. I agree with the fugitive slave clause. This clause calls for all run away slaves to be returned to their owner. I believe we should keep slavery in the United States.

Question: Should slaves count in the population toward representation? Why or why not? Answer: Yes because I myself am for slaves. I also believe in representation counted my population. Therefor I think slaves should go toward our population as a 3/5 of a person.

Question: Should the national government be able to regulate the commerce of the United States? Why or why not? Answer: I believe the national government should be allowed to regulate the commerce. I believe this because the national government should be very powerful therefor they should be allowed to control the laws of the businesses so nobody or/and anything can affect the business of the people.

Friends
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Rutledge, Pierce Butler

Groups
Big States, Virginia Plan, Charleston South Carolina, Constitutional Convention, Pro Slavery

Resources
http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/ss/pinckneyc.htm http://colonialhall.com/pinckneyc/pinckneyc.php http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/pinckney_c.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pinckney_%28governor%29