{"id":100,"date":"2010-09-15T18:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/?p=100"},"modified":"2010-10-19T01:29:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:29:05","slug":"james-wilson-father-of-the-american-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2010\/09\/15\/james-wilson-father-of-the-american-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wilson: Father of the American Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Plain, Honest Men<\/em> (2009), Richard Beeman claims that “Only one member of the Convention envisioned an American government, and a president, much like those we have today” (129).\u00a0 That man, according to Beeman, was James Wilson.\u00a0 Though he remains more obscure than Framers such as Madison, Franklin or Washington, Wilson was a pivotal figure in 1787.\u00a0 A member of the Pennsylvania delegation, Wilson was originally from Scotland.\u00a0 He came to the American colonies in 1765 at the age of twenty-three and soon found himself\u00a0 studying under John Dickinson.\u00a0 Wilson then settled in Carlisle where he worked as an attorney and became a participant in Pennsylvania politics.\u00a0 He relocated to Philadelphia in the late 1770s and by the time of the Constitutional Convention he had become a prominent lawyer and advisor to Robert Morris and other leading figures in the Confederation government.\u00a0 During the summer of 1787, Wilson argued strenuously for popular sovereignty and a single, strong president<\/a>.\u00a0 That\u00a0is why Beeman identifies him as the most modern of the Framers.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Plain, Honest Men (2009), Richard Beeman claims that “Only one member of the Convention envisioned an American government, and a president, much like those we have today” (129).\u00a0 That man, according to Beeman, was James Wilson.\u00a0 Though he remains … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12446],"tags":[12438],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-framer-profile","tag-framers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}