pinckney plan

(noun)

The Pinckney Plan refers to the proposal by Charles Pinckney of South Carolina to the Constitutional Convention. It advanced a bicameral legislature made up of a Senate and a House of Delegates. The House would have one member for every one thousand inhabitants. The House would elect Senators who would serve by rotation for four years and represent one of four regions.

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  • Constitutional Issues and Compromises

    • At the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia, Pinckney, New Jersey, and Hamilton plans gave way to the Connecticut Compromise.
    • Immediately after Randolph finished laying out the Virginia Plan, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina presented his own plan to the Convention .
    • Pinckney did also provide for a supreme Federal Judicial Court.
    • The Pinckney plan was not debated, but it may have been referred to by the Committee of Detail for early draft.
    • The Pinckney Plan proposed a bicameral legislature made up of a Senate and a House of Delegates.

  • "A More Perfect Union"

    • This became known as the Virginia Plan.
    • When the rest of the Virginia and Pennsylvania delegation arrived they agreed on Madison's plan, and formed what came to be the predominant coalition.
    • By the time the Convention started, the only blueprints that had been assembled were Madison's Virginia Plan, and Charles Pinckney's plan.
    • As Pinckney didn't have a coalition behind his plan, Madison's plan was the starting point for deliberations.
    • Agreeing on these principles, the Convention voted on the Virginia plan and began modifications.

  • The XYZ Affair

    • The French navy began to seize American merchant ships, and the French government refused to receive the American diplomat Charles Pinckney when he arrived in Paris in 1796.
    • When Adams sent a three-man delegation, Charles Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry, to Paris to negotiate a peace agreement with France, French agents demanded major concessions from the United States as a condition for continuing diplomatic relations.
    • The United States had offered France many of the same provisions found in the Jay Treaty with Britain, but France reacted by deporting Marshall and Pinckney back to the United States and refusing any proposal that would involve these two delegates, both key Federalists.

  • The Republican Victory

    • In the presidential election of 1800, Adams and his fellow Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, challenged the Republican duo of Jefferson and Burr.
    • Hamilton, in an attempt to sabotage Adams in favor of electing the vice-presidential candidate Charles Pinckney, wrote a scathing 54 page criticism of Adams that accidentally became public when it landed in the hands of the Democratic-Republicans.
    • But rather than marshal support for Pinckney, Hamilton's criticism embarrassed Adams and the Federalist party, exposing their internal divisions to the public eye.
    • While the Federalists arranged for one of their electors to abstain for voting for Pinckney (to give Adams the presidential seat), Republicans failed to do the same, and the ensuing tie between Jefferson and Burr threw the election into the Federalist-dominated House of Representatives .

  • The Quasi-War

    • The French seized 316 American merchant ships by June of 1797, and the French Republic refused to receive the new U.S. minister Charles Pinckney when he arrived in Paris in December of 1796.
    • When Adams sent a three-man delegation—Charles Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry—to Paris to negotiate a peace agreement with France, French agents demanded major concessions from the United States as a condition for continuing diplomatic relations.
    • The United States had offered France many of the same provisions found in Jay's Treaty with Britain, but France reacted by deporting Marshall and Pinckney—both key Federalists—back to the United States and refusing any proposal that would involve these two delegates.

  • The Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan

  • The Election of 1800 and the Federalist Legacy

    • In the presidential election of 1800, incumbent President John Adams and his fellow Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, challenged the Republican duo of incumbent Vice President Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
    • Hamilton, in an attempt to sabotage Adams in favor of electing the vice-presidential candidate Charles Pinckney, wrote a scathing 54 page criticism of Adams that accidentally became public when it landed in the hands of the Democratic-Republicans.
    • Rather than marshal support for Pinckney, Hamilton's criticism embarrassed Adams and the Federalist party, exposing their internal divisions to the public.

  • Purpose of the Marketing Plan

    • A formal marketing plan provides a clear reference point for activities throughout the planning period.
    • Still, what's the point of creating a formal marketing plan?
    • Exactly what purpose does a marketing plan serve?
    • A formal marketing plan provides a clear reference point for activities throughout the planning period.
    • However, perhaps the most important benefit of these plans is the planning process itself.

  • The Articles of Confederation

    • In May 1786, Continental Congress member Charles Pinckney of South Carolina proposed that Congress revise the Articles.

  • Pinckney's Treaty

    • Thomas Pinckney negotiated the treaty for the United States, and Don Manuel de Godoy represented Spain.