In May 1787, the democratic government that had ... Of the three delegates from that state, only Hamilton had signed the Constitution. The other two delegates had fled the convention in anger.

He urged every delegate to sign the document ... on October 27, 1787. Hamilton needed collaborators, and he approached first John Jay, an author of New York's state constitution, and then Madison ...

The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787) were both signed in this building in Philadelphia. The universal principles of freedom and democracy set forth ...

One of only a handful of ratified copies of the United States Constitution is expected to ... This listing is a copy of the document that was both signed by then-Secretary of Congress Charles ...

Perhaps the most famous words spoken on the day we commemorate this week — September 17, 1787 -- were those of Benjamin Franklin. After the Constitution had been signed and the convention ...

It is observed on September 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787. When Constitution Day falls on a weekend or on another holiday, schools and other ...

signed to attest, or authenticate, the delegates’ signatures. Also of note is the method by which the Constitution is dated: “the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord” 1787 ...