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When/ Where/ Why of Constitutional Convention
When: 1787
Where: Philadelphia
Why: to amend the Articles of Confederation
Things the Articles of Confederation were lacking
- no power to tax
- could not regulate interstate commerce (goods)
- could not regulate foreign commerce
What the delegates thought they were going to Philadelphia to do
to amend the Articles of Confederation. They were actually abolishing them
John Adams
- not at convention because he was America’s Ambassador to England
-went to England to approach Prime Minister about unfair foreign commerce
Thomas Jefferson
- not at convention because he was the ambassador to France
- sent a lot of manuscripts from France to James Madison to write the constitution
James Madison
- one of the principle writers of the Virginia Plan
- delegate of Virginia
- sat away from other Virginia Delegates to take notes.
- kept the public informed
The states all
brought their own plans
George Washington
- unanimously elected president of the Constitutional Convention
- he took the binding vote
Nathaniel Gorham
- chairman of the Committee of the Whole
Three who didn’t sign the Constitution
- Governor Randolph: Virginia
- George Mason: Virginia; because there was no document of rights for citizens. They had one in each state, but he said there needed to be one for basic rights of all U.S. citizens
- Elbridge Garry- Massachusetts
Date Constitution was signed
September 17, 1787
Date Constitutional Convention Convened
May 25, 1787
Huge argument about
Representation- smaller states wanted equal representation in the senate to give them an advantage in computing electoral votes.
Houses
Congress
House of Representatives senate
population equal- every state has
2 senators
Supreme Law of the Land
The constitution
Can congress propose new amendments to the constitution?
Yes
