Show constitution developed with the greatest care in none of the relatively meager records of the constitutional convention is the literary autho authorship iship of any part of the constitution definitely established asserts a writer in the detroit news the deputies depuhl es proposed plans until a committee of detail was appointed on july 24 1787 consisting of john rutledge of south carolina edmund randolph of virginia nathaniel gorham of massachusetts chu oliver eusworth ellsworth of connecticut and james wilson of pennsylvania who on august 6 reported a draft deba debate te continued un until til september 8 when a new committee of style was named to revise the draft this committee included william S johnson of connecticut alexander hamilton of new york gouverneur morris of pennsylvania james madison of virginia and rufus king of massachusetts and they reported the draft in approximately its final form on september 12 the actual literary forn form is believed to be largely that of morris as indicated by the letters and papers of madison and morris claim however in reality it was developed slowly and carefully with not a piece of material included until it had been shaped and approved the preamble was written by the committee on style |