Portal:Federal Convention of 1787
The Philadelphia Convention (now also known as the Constitutional Convention, the Federal Convention, or the "Grand Convention at Philadelphia") took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. Although the Convention was purportedly intended only to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was from the outset to create a new government rather than "fix" the existing one. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the convention. The result of the Convention was the United States Constitution. The Convention is one of the central events in the history of the United States.
Plans
[edit]- Virginia Plan (May 29, 1787)
- Plan of Charles Pinckney (SC) (May 29, 1787)
- New Jersey Plan (June 15, 1787)
- Plan of Alexander Hamilton (NY) (June 18, 1787)
- Virginia Plan, Revised (June 19, 1787)
- Virginia Plan, Version III (July 26, 1787)
- Draft Version of the Constitution (August 6, 1787)
Constitution of the United States of America
[edit]- Constitution of the United States of America (Signed September 17, 1787; Ratified June 21, 1788)
- United States Constitution—Broadside print by John Carter
- The United States Constitution in United States Statutes at Large