a constitutional convention. The 1787 gathering in Philadelphia to write the Constitution was the one and only time state representatives have convened to work on the document. But a simple line ...

After all, the men who gathered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 were not there to ... Congress at any given time.

Hamilton did not attend the entire four-month Constitutional Convention that began in May 1787 in Philadelphia. He had been one of the strongest advocates for that convention, but he was outvoted ...

Some constitutional scholars believe that ... be the best way to create a new one. After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of Confederation, the existing ...

There is a precedent, after all: The original Constitutional Convention in 1787 was called to amend the Articles of Confederation. The founders instead "abolished the articles" and came up with ...

Eighth-graders debated the merits of representation in government as delegates to the Constitutional Convention.