Pierce Butler
Former United States SenatorWikipedia
19
MENTIONS
12
EPISODES
9
PODCASTS
Search complete. 19 mentions across 12 episodes found for "Pierce Butler".
Oct 3, 2026
Laurie Ann WaldenNARRATOR
Charles Pinckney.
Laurie Ann WaldenNARRATOR
Pierce Butler.
Laurie Ann WaldenNARRATOR
Georgia.
Laurie Ann WaldenNARRATOR
William Few.
Dan HollawayHOST
Charles Pickney, excuse me, said there is quote, peculiar danger and impropriety in opening its doors to those who have foreign attachments and cited the Athenians who made it death for a stranger to speak in their assembly.
Dan HollawayHOST
Pierce Butler went even further.
Dan HollawayHOST
He says, well, Mr. Butler was decidedly opposed to the admission of foreigners without a long residence in the country.
Dan HollawayHOST
They bring with them not only attachments from other countries, but ideas of government so distinct from ours that in every point of view, they are dangerous.
22 MINS LATER
Dan HollawayHOST
It covers every American citizen alive in 1788.
Dan HollawayHOST
On identical terms, the immigrant and the native in the same sentence with no distinction, which means the Constitution made Alexander Hamilton of Nevis, by the way, he wasn't born in America, eligible to be president.
Dan HollawayHOST
And James Wilson of Scotland, Robert Morris of Liverpool, Thomas Fitzsimmons, and James McHenry, William Paterson, and Pierce Butler, all of Ireland.
Dan HollawayHOST
The seven foreign-born men who signed the Constitution wrote a presidential eligibility clause that made them all eligible for the presidency, and the screen they actually set against foreign influence in the same sentence was 14 years of residence.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
The full significance of this fact was obscured to many of them, but not to the extent that they did not realize at least the practical effects which were entailed.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
Thus, in the present debate, the English-born Pierce Butler appeared to the example of GB, Great Britain, where men got into the parlot.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
This is a direct quote.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
He's doing the C.S. Lewis thing where he's abbreviating things, Parliament, that they might get offices for themselves or their friends.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
This was the source of corruption that ruined their government.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
Pierce Butler's criticizing Great Britain.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
Mason, that's George Mason, likewise declared, quote, I admire, this is a block quote, I admire many parts of the British Constitution and government, but I detest their corruption.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
Why has the power of the crown so remarkably increased in the last century? A stranger by reading their laws would suppose it considerably diminished, page 84 at the top, and yet by the sole power of appointing the increased officers of government corruption pervades every town and village in the kingdom you want a job i got a job for you that's the corruption using the public purse to control government by giving people jobs and then they owe you one right okay and again On the ensuing day, that's unquote.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Edmund Randolph was thirty-three years old, tall, handsome, and by common consent the finest presence in his delegation.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Major Pierce of Georgia, sketching him as he sketched everyone, wrote, "'Mr.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Randolph is a governor of Virginia, a young gentleman in whom unite all the accomplishments of the scholar and the statesman.' He came forward with the first principles on which the convention acted, and he supported them with a force of eloquence and a reasoning that did him great honor.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He has a most harmonious voice and a fine person and striking manners.
14 MINS LATER
speaker_0NARRATOR
They were meant merely to introduce the particular resolutions that explained the system.
speaker_0NARRATOR
George Reith, presiding over his last days in the room, presumed from the silence of the House that the gentlemen were prepared to pass the resolution, and proposed putting the question forward.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Pierce Butler was not.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He did not think the House prepared.
Kristen McQuillanNARRATOR
North Carolina: William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson.
Kristen McQuillanNARRATOR
South Carolina: Jay Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler.
Kristen McQuillanNARRATOR
Georgia: William Few, Abraham Baldwin.
Kristen McQuillanNARRATOR
Attested, William Jackson, Secretary.
speaker_0HOST
and General Charles Cotworth Pickney, who had soldiered through the war with high rank.
speaker_0HOST
With them came Pierce Butler, a man of large fortune and, as Major Pierce noted at the end of his sketch, an Irishman by birth.
speaker_0HOST
The fourth South Carolinian was General Pickney's younger cousin, Charles Pickney, and the young man told the convention he was 24 years old.
speaker_0HOST
Major Pierce wrote it down in good faith.
Jeffrey RosenHOST
He gets wildly overextended.
Jeffrey RosenHOST
Finally, as a sitting Supreme Court justice, James Wilson is locked up in debtor's prison because he's being pursued by one of his creditors, who happens to be a fellow delegate to the convention, Pierce Butler.
Jeffrey RosenHOST
And he dies in a boarding house in Edenton, North Carolina.
Jeffrey RosenHOST
And among his last whispered words are, at least I was industrious.
Eric BuchananHOST
The legislators might, might not.
Eric BuchananHOST
Pierce Butler of South Carolina went even one step further and said, as a practical matter, We don't want to put it before the state legislators because they've taken an oath to support their existing state governments, and this Constitution is going to undermine that.
Eric BuchananHOST
It's going
Clint PowellHOST
to trump the state, yeah.
Eric BuchananHOST
The legislators might, might not.
Eric BuchananHOST
Pierce Butler of South Carolina went even one step further and said, as a practical matter, We don't want to put it before the state legislators because they've taken an oath to support their existing state governments, and this Constitution is going to undermine that.
Eric BuchananHOST
It's going
Clint PowellHOST
to trump the state, yeah.
Eric BuchananHOST
The legislators might, might not.
Eric BuchananHOST
Pierce Butler of South Carolina went even one step further and said, as a practical matter, We don't want to put it before the state legislators because they've taken an oath to support their existing state governments, and this Constitution is going to undermine that.
Eric BuchananHOST
It's going
Clint PowellHOST
to trump the state, yeah.
2 more episodes mention Pierce Butler.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.