Amid all that scholarship lurked ideas about government that he would champion throughout his career, as drafter of the constitution, a leader in Congress, his country's chief diplomat and its fourth president.Sound-bites were few and far between, reducing his modern-day fame.
Abbott responded as the drafters of Hatch-Waxman envisioned: it sued.
Petraeus recruited as lead drafters his West Point classmate Conrad Crane, the historian, and John Nagl, whose dissertation at Oxford became the influential book "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam".
Mr Mackay takes the same view as the drafters of the Swedish law that most prostitution is not voluntary, and most sex workers are victims who must be helped to exit the profession.
But as the drafters of the resolution realised, it was never going to be enough on its own to prevent Colonel Qaddafi from killing his people.Even without their combat aircraft and helicopter gunships, Colonel Qaddafi's paramilitaries are proving too well-trained and well-equipped for the motley rebel forces to withstand on their own.
As the drafters of the Declaration of Independence said in another context, people here have not been "wanting in attention to [their] British brethren" and the "ties of our common kindred".
As a woman, and as the drafter of the women's rights clause of the Japanese Constitution, which was written during the American occupation of Japan, I would like to thank you for your Sept. 24 editorial "Afghan Women's Rights".
It's now "the best federal model in Asia," as one drafter of that recent, historic constitutional amendment puts it.
"Plaintiffs are going into court against the accounting firms with these cases," Ms. Arlen said, "claiming that the accounting firm is primarily liable as the drafter of the document".
