Did the writers of the Constitution argue over the placement of every word...

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...and/or part of speech? I have a textualist for a AP US History teacher, and he told us "Every comma, every period, every colon, was argued over for hours possibly days.". Does that seem realistic.
 
Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania was put in charge of the committee to draft the final copy of the United States Constitution.
The other men who had much to do with writing the new Constitution included John Dickinson, Edmund Randolph, Roger Sherman, James Wilson, and George Wythe. Morris was given the task of putting all the convention's resolutions and decisions into polished form.
Morris actually "wrote" the Constitution. The original copy of the document is preserved in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.
 
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