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Drafter

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The person who draws or frames a legal document such as a will, Pleading, conveyance, or contract. One who writes an original legislative bill for the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives is called the drafter of that bill.



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Rather than craft a straightforward and simple fix to eminent-domain rules, the drafters of Proposition 90 opted to go further -- inserting other far-reaching and unrelated provisions into the California Constitution.
The drafters of our Constitution had themselves been the victims of such abuse of power by King George III.
A solemn papal declaration that Jews were cursed by God for killing Jesus, something that had never been formally defined in Catholic doctrine, would have established a contemporary authoritative precedent that would have made it virtually impossible for the drafters of Nostra aetate to state "the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture.
 
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