Charles Pinckney

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  12/6/2022
  

  SCOTUS Seems Poised to Overrule Democracy By Drawing on a Historical Forgery

  In 1818, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina sent John Quincy Adams a fake document that made it look like Pinckney was a principal author of the 1787 Constitution. At the time, the ruse was rejected. Why are Supreme Court conservatives looking to this document in to justify their decisions?  

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• SOURCE: Politico
  9/15/2022
  

  "Independent State Legislature" Legal Theory Based in Fake History

  Charles Pinckney's ideas for the Constitution were rejected by the framers. Years later, he produced fake documents to aggrandize his own role at the convention. Right-wing legal activists have used them to argue that state legislatures can decide election results however they want.