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Robert Yates (January 27, 1738 – September 9, 1801) was an American politician, attorney, jurist, and surveyor. As a delegate representing New York at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Yates is considered a Founding Father of the United States. Best known as a leader of the Anti-Federalist movement, he was the presumed author of ...
Robert Yates is also the presumed author of the Anti-Federalist political essays published in 1787 and 1788 under the pseudonym “Brutus.” In contrast to the essays that became the Federalist Papers, Yates’ essays opposed the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Jan 4, 2002 · Yates, Secret Proceedings and Debates description begins Robert Yates, Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Philadelphia, in the Year 1787, For the Purpose of Forming the Constitution of The United States of America (Albany, 1821). description ends , 129–37.
When he travelled to Philadelphia in May 1787 for the federal convention, he expected that the delegates would simply discuss revising the existing Articles. Yates was on the committee that debated the question of representation in the legislature, and it soon became apparent that the convention intended much more than modification of the ...
Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787, Taken by the Late Hon Robert Yates, Chief Justice of the State of New York, and One of the Delegates from That State to the Said Convention. (1) Robert Yates. WEDNESDAY, MAY 30TH, 1787. Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Brutus | 1787. Summary. “Brutus” was the pseudonym for one of the most forceful Anti-Federalist voices during the ratification debates over the U.S. Constitution. While scholars still debate the author of the Brutus Essays, most believe that they were written by New York Anti-Federalist Robert Yates. Yates was a New York state judge.
Judge Robert Yates, who in 1777 had served on the committee that drafted the state constitution, was a delegate from New York to the constitutional convention of 1787. A trusted, if undistinguished, follower of Governor George Clinton, Yates represented the antinationalist viewpoint then dominant in New York politics.
