{"id":5175,"date":"2017-11-13T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2023-11-03T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:31:44","slug":"39-the-final-day-a-peculiar-solemnity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5175","title":{"rendered":"39. The Final Day: A Peculiar Solemnity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1457\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg39.webp\" alt=\"As the Constitutional Convention threatened to collapse on its final day, an unexpected voice of reason made an impassioned plea.\" class=\"wp-image-10099\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg39.webp 1200w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg39-768x932.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the Constitutional Convention threatened to collapse on its final day, an unexpected voice of reason spoke up with an impassioned plea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But wait, wasn&#8217;t Charles Pinckney the bad guy? Isn&#8217;t he the guy who claimed to have his own proposal, sent a quickly made-up one to Adams decades later to ensure his place in the history books? Isn&#8217;t he the guy who fought so hard for slavery?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">History isn&#8217;t a story. Real-life people are rarely &#8220;the bad guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pinckney is largely credited with something he probably never did. The irony is he&#8217;s largely <em>un<\/em>credited for giving one of the most important speeches of the convention. Literally the last moments of the last day.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As the Constitutional Convention threatened to collapse on its final day, an unexpected voice of reason spoke up with an impassioned plea. But wait, wasn&#8217;t Charles Pinckney the bad guy? Isn&#8217;t he the guy who claimed to have his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,35,47,1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completion","category-constitutional-law","category-creating-the-constitution","category-uncategorized","category-what-were-they-thinking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}