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	Constitutional Topic: The Constitutional Convention - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		Though the United States existed prior to the ratification of the Constitution, it was a nation held together by the tenuous threads of the Articles of Confederation, a sometimes contentious, and often ineffectual national government.
		However, in the struggle for ratification, Hamilton became a champion of the new Constitution, and was one of the main contributors to the Federalist Papers.
		With the signing of the Constitution by the Convention's President, the eminent George Washington, and the signatures of each of the attending states, the journey began.
	www.usconstitution.net /consttop_ccon.html (5199 words)

	Constitutional convention -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A constitutional convention is an informal and uncodified procedural agreement that is followed by the institutions of a state.
		Constitutional conventions differ from formal (Click link for more info and facts about constitutional amendments) constitutional amendments in that they are created over time, and it may be difficult or impossible to identify when a constitutional convention has come into effect or sometimes even what the constitutional conventions are.
		While Britain does not have a written constitution that is a single document, the collection of ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right) legal instruments that have developed into a body of law known as constitutional law has existed for hundreds of years.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/constitutional_convention.htm (1919 words)

	constitutional convention of 1787 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Constitutional Convention of 1787, also known as the Federal Convention of 1787, was the meeting at which the Constitution of the United States was debated and agreed upon.
		The Constitutional Convention convened on May 25, 1787, in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the Declaration of Independence had been adopted 11 years earlier, on July 4, 1776.
		One provision of the United States Constitution (Article V) that has never been used authorizes the calling of further constitutional conventions for proposing constitutional amendements upon the request of two-thirds of the states.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Constitutional_Convention_of_1787.html (187 words)

	1787 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		May 25 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention intended to amend the Articles of Confederation.
		However, a new Constitution for the United States was eventually produced.
		September 17 - United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1787 (430 words)

	Constitutional convention (disambiguation) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Constitutional convention ...
		US convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787, called to revise the Articles of Confederation but resulting in the drafting of the US Constitution.
		Article VII of the Constitution stated that it would become the law of the land with the approval of nine of the thirteen states.
		Of the original 55 delegates that opened the convention, 42 were present when the constitution was submitted for approval.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Constitutional+convention+(disambiguation) (356 words)

	Constitutional Convention. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The upshot was the calling of a general convention of the states to discuss commercial problems.
		The convention was in session until Sept. 17, 1787, and the document was then sent to the states for ratification.
		The thesis, associated with the name of Charles Austin Beard, that the Constitution was framed solely to further the economic interest of special groups, notably creditors, land speculators, and holders of public securities, has not been generally accepted by historians.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/ConstituC.html (1080 words)

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		The first Constitutional Convention was held in Sydney in March 1891 to consider a draft Constitution for the proposed federation of the British colonies in Australia and New Zealand.
		Among the delegates was Sir Henry Parkes, known as the "Father of Federation." The Convention approved a draft largely written by Sir Samuel Griffith, but the colonial parliaments failed to act to ratify it.
		In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the issue of the militia was first raised in reaction to a proposal that the national legislature be empowered to (p.136)negate state laws.
	www.lycos.com /info/constitutional-convention.html (602 words)

	Constitutional Convention -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Constitution was written during the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 55 delegates to a Constitutional Convention that was called ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation (1781–89), the country's first written constitution.
		The purpose of the convention was to amend the inefficient Articles of Confederation that had served as the preliminary constitution for the United States since 1781.
		The United States Constitution was produced at the Constitutional Convention held at Philadelphia in the summer of 1787.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9026015 (940 words)

	Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
		The Constitution is presented entirely as the document resulting from the months of tortuous and heated debates that more than once threatened to dissolve in acrimony.
		Throughout, the point is made that the Constitution was not written in any kind of sequential manner, nor were the points discussed one at a time.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0345346521 (511 words)

	The Constitutional Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For four months, 55 delegates from the several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic that would last into "remote futurity." This is the story of the delegates to that convention and the framing of the federal Constitution.
		To clarify the events of the Constitutional Convention, Gordon Lloyd has organized the convention into four parts—a four part drama—and also provided a day-by-day summary of the Convention.
		Individual Biographies of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
	www.teachingamericanhistory.org /convention (170 words)

	The Franklin Prayer Myth
		It is further said that after this period of prayer meetings, the Constitutional Convention resumed with the addition of the chaplain and sped peacefully to concluding the writing of The Constitution.
		Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824), one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States, was a delegate from New Jersey, a U.S. Senator and the Speaker of the House.
		The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was in dire straits and in danger of dissolution when Benjamin Franklin made an appeal and a motion for public prayer within the Convention in an eloquent speech on the floor of the Convention on June 28, 1787.
	members.tripod.com /%7Ecandst/franklin.htm (10995 words)

	The James Madison Papers - James Madison and the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 (American Memory from the ...
		He could see his major contribution, the replacing of the phrase "all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion" with "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of it." It was a triumph that foreshadowed his "Memorial and Remonstrance" (1785) and later the Bill of Rights (1789).
		Without going into the well-known peregrinations of the nationalists as they led the way to a federal Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, it is nonetheless important to note that the partnership between Washington and Madison was the key that unlocked the door to the convention hall.
		John C. Payne's Copy of James Madison's Original Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/madison_papers/mjmconst.html (921 words)

	Philadelphia Constitutional Convention 1787
		The Convention had not proceeded far when it was discovered that the Articles of Confederation were too radically defective to afford a basis for a stable government, and therefore, instead of trying to amend them, they went diligently at work to form a new constitution.
		The Convention ordered their proceedings to be laid before the Congress, and by a carefully-worded resolution recommended that body to submit the new Constitution to the people (not the States), and ask them, the source of all sovereignty, to ratify or reject it.
		It was violently assailed in these conventions and through the medium of the press, by those who regarded allegiance to a State as paramount to that to the national government; while powerful essays in its favor were written by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, under the title of The Federalist.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_vol_2/philadelph_bfa.html (1531 words)

	Constitutional Convention of 1787, The,
		Constitutional Convention of 1787, The, was attended by more alumni of Princeton than any other American or British institution.
		Five of the college alumni at the convention had attended William and Mary, five Yale,* three Harvard, three Columbia, two the University of Pennsylvania, one Oxford, one Glasgow, and one had studied at three universities in Scotland.
		Jonathan Dayton, son of a storekeeper in Elizabethtown, had served with distinction in the Revolution, and, at twenty-six, was the convention's youngest delegate.
	mondrian.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/constitutional_convention.html (1087 words)

	Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Revolution in Government, The Phi Kappa Phi Forum - Find Articles
		Yet, as they prepared to conclude their business on September 17, 1787, after nearly four months of debate, disagreement, and compromise, they were being asked to add their assent to a document that would effect a radical revolution in the character of their continental government.
		On May 14, 1787, the day on which the convention that was called to amend the Articles of Confederation was due to begin, James Madison found himself in a gloomy mood.
		He was, on the one hand, the only delegate in the Convention who was, intellectually, a true "democratic nationalist." On the other hand, he was instinctively uneasy with the "comman man" in his real-life, day-to-day interactions with ordinary citizens.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4026/is_200607/ai_n17187926 (895 words)

	retreats in 1 constitutional convention of 1787 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	United States Constitution: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		The Making of the U.S. Constitution is a special presentation that provides a brief history of the making of the Constitution followed by the text of the Constitution as originally adopted.
		During the Constitutional Convention, the Committee of Style was appointed "to revise the style of, and arrange, the articles which have been agreed to by the House." On September 12, 1787, the Convention ordered copies printed and distributed to the delegates.
		Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Constitution.html (1183 words)

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		Gerry was one of the most vocal delegates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
		In 1789, after he announced his intention to support the Constitution, he was elected to the First Congress where, to the chagrin of the Antifederalists, he championed Federalist policies.
		JEF Europe is alarmed by the proposals of some European governments to reopen the compromise established in the Constitutional Convention.
	www.lycos.com /info/constitutional-convention--federal-congress.html?page=2 (459 words)

	Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal
		These constitutional developments included a determination not to permit everyday life to be governed routinely by the measures that had had to be resorted to in extreme cases.
		The Constitution of 1787, which included (as we have seen) various guarantees of rights, was itself similar in critical respects to the English Bill of Rights of 1689 in that both documents defined a new constitutional order.
		We have seen that the Constitution of 1787 does recognize various rights in the body of the original instrument, such rights as those to the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, the right of trial by jury, and the right of the people in every State to a Republican Form of Government.
	www.saf.org /LawReviews/AnastaploSection1.html (17711 words)

	81.ch.01: Connecticut in the Constitutional Convention
		It is useful to classify the fifty-five delegates of the convention into “nationalists” and “federalists.” The former group felt that the central government should be empowered to coerce the states and their citizens.
		Perhaps a better Constitution could not be made upon mere speculation, it was consented to by all the states present in convention—which is a circumstance in its favor so far as any respect is due to it.
		Elected a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, he became a staunch defender of states’ rights; but when convinced of the Constitution’s merits and practicality, Ellsworth assumed leadership in the fight for its ratification in his native state.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/cthistory/81.ch.01.x.html (7108 words)

	Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 - To Form a More Perfect Union: ...
		On July 26, 1787, after two months of fierce debate over the structure and powers of a new federal government, the Constitutional Convention was ready to commit its resolutions to writing.
		The Convention told them to print just enough copies for use by the delegates; the draft was to be kept secret to avoid controversy.
		After five weeks of debate over the committee of detail's draft Constitution, the Constitutional Convention appointed a committee of style to prepare a final version; Gouverneur Morris, later known as the "penman of the Constitution," did most of the work.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/continental/constit.html (658 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1787-1800
		At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, framers debated the length of Senate terms.
		The framers of the Constitution, tied to an agriculturally based economy, with its cycle of planting, growing and harvesting, considered the dormant month of December as a particularly good time for members of Congress to begin their legislative sessions.
		Although Rutledge had enjoyed a long and distinguished career that included participation in the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, his openly hostile criticism of the Jay Treaty earlier in the year undermined his support in the Senate.
	www.senate.gov /pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/1787.htm (1640 words)

	Constitutional Convention of 1787, The,
		Constitutional Convention of 1787, The, was attended by more alumni of Princeton than any other American or British institution.
		Five of the college alumni at the convention had attended William and Mary, five Yale,* three Harvard, three Columbia, two the University of Pennsylvania, one Oxford, one Glasgow, and one had studied at three universities in Scotland.
		Slender and handsome as a student, he was by 1787, according to Pierce, ``very corpulent.'' He was an impressive speaker, but a nervous one, apt to be hasty and impetuous.
	etcweb.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/constitutional_convention.html (1087 words)

	THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION-1787
		The convention was scheduled to begin, but a quorum was not present.
		On September 17, 1787 A.D., the Constitutional Convention closed with the signing of The Constitution for the United States of America, unanimously approved by the delegations from the states present, and sent to Congress to be sent to the states for ratification.
		It is certain from the foregoing recitation, debates and votes, that the clear intent of those who brought about The Constitution of the United States of America was to preclude the possibility of paper money, though paper money had its advocates in the convention.
	www.angelfire.com /ut2/lrtopham/convention.html (1262 words)

	Georgetown University Library: John Winkler's Drawings for The Constitutional Convention of 1787: Home/Introduction
		The etching was commissioned by the George Washington Memorial Association for a portfolio of twenty etchings by several prominent artists, in honor of the bicentennial of Washington’s birth in 1932.
		On view with the drawings are an original proof of Washington Presiding Over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, May, 1787, a copper etching plate based on his studies of Benjamin Franklin, and several letters, including one from President Herbert Hoover to the president of the George Washington Memorial Association.
		JOHN W. OF 1787' presents twenty-six highly accomplished preparatory drawings, of 130 completed, for the popular 1932 etching "The Constitutional Convention of 1787," created for a portfolio of twenty etchings by various prominent artists commissioned by the George Washington Memorial Association in honor of the bicentennial of Washington's birth in 1932.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/guac/winkler_04 (711 words)

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