Pierce Butler in the United States
Butler, Pierce (1744_1822)
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 208 BUTLER, PIERCE (1744_1822) Irish-born Pierce Butler represented South Carolina at the constitutional convention of 1787 and signed the Constitution. It was Butler who first proposed the Convention’s secrecy rule. A frequent speaker, he favored a weak central government and championed the interests
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