He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gunn was selected as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787 but never attended sessions.

He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He returned to the Congress in 1787 and 1788, and in 1788 attended the state convention that ratified the United States Constitution.

Born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina around 1767, Alexander attended the common schools and then Princeton College, graduating in 1787.

He was elected to the Congress annually from 1785 to 1787, but attended sessions only in 1786.

* 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

George Washington at Constitutional Convention ( United States ) | Constitutional Convention of 1787, signing of U. S. Constitution.

Prior to the passage of the United States Constitution, several States passed their own various copyright laws between 1783 and 1787, the first state being Connecticut.

The Copyright Clause of the United States Constitution ( 1787 ) authorized copyright legislation: " To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Delaware was one of the 13 colonies participating in the American Revolution and on December 7, 1787, became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby becoming known as The First State.

* 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Dissatisfied with the weaknesses of Articles of Confederation, in 1787 Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution.

Washington Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States | at the Signing of the United States Constitution, September 17, 1787, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940.

* 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.

* 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States ; George Washington presides.

With the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, control of the army and the power to direct the militia of the states was concurrently delegated to the federal Congress.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

* 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U. S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

* 1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Involved with writing the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of 1787.

In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which created the Northwest Territory in what is now the upper Midwestern United States.

He was a delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787, as well as a signer of the Constitution.

The United States could not defend itself as an independent nation in the world of 1787.

Category: 1787 in the United States

* February 2 – James C. Jarvis, United States Navy officer ( b. 1787 )

* December 14 – George Washington, the military leader of the American Revolution, president of the Constitutional Convention ( 1787 ), and the first President of the United States ( 1789 – 97 ) ( b. 1732 )

Category: States and territories established in 1787

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

He made an exploratory trip to the western frontier in 1784, was persuaded to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, and was unanimously elected president of the Convention.

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, there were a number of references to judicial review.

When the Constitutional Convention convened in May 1787, the 12 state delegations in attendance ( Rhode Island was absent ) brought with them an accumulated experience over a diverse set of institutional arrangements between legislative and executive branches from within their respective state governments.

He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania, President of the Continental Congress, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven states.

The Constitutional Convention began deliberations on May 25, 1787.

# After years of frustration, an agreement was reached in 1787 to organize a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia with the mission of writing and proposing a number of amendments to the Articles of Confederation in order to improve the form of government.

" in Knupfer, The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787 – 1861 ( 1991 ), pp. 119 – 57.

The city hosted the First Continental Congress before the war ; the Second Continental Congress, which signed the United States Declaration of Independence, during the war ; and the Constitutional Convention ( 1787 ) after the war.

There are examples among United States historical documents: the end ( but not the beginning ) of the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ) and all of the Constitution ( 1787 ) show nearly all nouns capitalized ; the Bill of Rights ( 1789 ) capitalizes a few common nouns but not most of them ; and the Thirteenth Constitutional Amendment ( 1865 ) only capitalizes proper nouns.

Houston Street is named for William Houstoun, who was a delegate from State of Georgia to the Continental Congress from 1784 through 1786 and to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

He declined to attend the Constitutional Convention of 1787, saying that he " smelt a rat in Philadelphia, tending toward the monarchy.

The Constitutional Convention in 1787 used the Virginia Plan as the basis for discussions, as the Virginia delegation had proposed it first.

For several months in 1787, Gorham served as one of the Massachusetts delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention.