All quotations are from “Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787″ by Catherine Drinker Bowen. When 55 delegates from 12 states gathered in ...

The scene. Origins of the Convention -- The delegates and the State House. Washington and Madison -- In Convention. Randolph introduces the Virginia plan -- Federal versus national. The "two supremes.

On Sept. 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed a newly crafted Constitution for the United States. The men had spent all summer working on the document, honing ...

Sept. 17 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1787, the U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Nine states ratified ...

Thanks in part to our current contentious, partisan political climate, there have been calls for modifying or replacing the Constitution approved in 1787 at a convention in Philadelphia and ratified ...

WASHINGTON – Wednesday is Constitution Day, which commemorates the signing of the United States’ founding document by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. To mark ...