Pierce+Bulter's+Delegate+Profile

=**__Pierce Butler__**= toc

__Profile Questions__

 * Question: How about a brief biography? What is your background? **
 * Answer: **People tell me I am a man of startling contrasts. I was born in Ireland and came to America in 1758 when I was a officer in the British Army. By 1779, I was an officer in South Carolina’s militia. I was organizing American forces to invade the Redcoats. After that I lost my considerable estates and fortune during the British occupation of South Carolina. Although my health is very bad and prevents me from assuming an active combat role, I offered my military talents to my state. Military operators in the latter months of the Revolution left me a poor man, many of my plantations and ships are destroyed. In 1787, I won election to both the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. I represented South Carolina at the Constitutional Convention. On my return to South Carolina I defended the Constitution, but didn’t participate in the ratifying convention.


 * Question: Which should be stronger, the state government or the national government? Why? **
 * Answer: **I think that the national government should be stronger than the state governments. We should be ruled under one government. Because, I believe that if we have one main government we would become a stronger nation.


 * 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 of the states by population. With the 3/5 compromise should be used to determine how many free people a slave shall equal.


 * Question: Who should vote for the members of the legislature, and why? **
 * Answer: **The congress should vote for members of the legislature. The congress represents all the states, so the congress should decide who will serve on the legislature.


 * Question: Should we have one or more than one chief executive? Why? **
 * Answer: **I think that we should only have one chief executive. Because, if our nation was run by a group of people there would be many disagreements on things and that would cause problems for the nation. But, if we only had one chief executive he would make the decision and there would be no arguments.


 * Question; What kind of powers should the Chief Executive or Executives have? **
 * Answer: **The chief executive should have powers but not to many to become to powerful. He should be able to make, enforce, and veto laws. Also, he should be able to make an opinion with the heads of the departments.


 * Question: Who should elect the chief executive(s)? **
 * Answer: ** I think that the legislature and congress should elect the chief executive. They should be able to take in the people's opinions, it should be a democratic republic.


 * Question: What should be done about slavery in the United States? Should it be kept or outlawed? **
 * Answer: **I think that slavery in the United States should be kept. I have hundreds of slaves myself and we are doing just fine. It isn’t a problem to me at all that’s why we should keep slavery.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Question: Should slaves count in the population toward representation? Why or why not? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Answer: **In my opinion slaves should count in the population towards representation. Without slaves being counted in the population, the bigger states would get more representation than us smaller states. If we count slaves in the population we will get the representation that we deserve.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Question: Should the national government be able to regulate the commerce of the United States? Why or why not? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Answer: ** Yes, the national government should be allowed to regulate commerce of the United States. Everything would be easier on the country. Also, the country would be more organized if trade was regulated by national government.

__Friends__

 * John Rutledge
 * Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
 * George Washington
 * Charles Pinckney
 * Mary Middleton Butler
 * John Butler
 * John Adams

__Groups__

 * South Carolinians
 * Slave States
 * Attended College
 * Signed the Constitution

**__References__**
King, 1778 The. "PIERCE BUTLER." //U.S. Army Center Of Military History//. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.history.army.mil/books/revwar/ss/butler.htm>.

"Delegates to the Constitutional Convention:Pierce Butler." //TeachingAmericanHistory.org -- Free Seminars and Summer Institutes for Social Studies Teachers//. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/butler.html>.

"Pierce Butler, Signer of the U.S. Constitution." //World Religions Religion Statistics Geography Church Statistics//. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Pierce_Butler.html>.

"Butler Family." //New Georgia Encyclopedia//. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-617>.

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