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FINISHING THE WORK.
Rutledge and his associates on the committee of detail accomplished so much in such a short time that it seems as if they must have worked day and night.

Their efforts marked a distinct stage in the development of the Constitution.

The committee left no records, but some of the members retained among their private papers drafts of the different stages of the report they were framing, and we are therefore able to surmise the way in which the committee proceeded.

Of course the members were bound by the resolutions which had been adopted by the Convention and they held themselves closely to the general principles that had been laid down.