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Allyn Cox Oil on Canvas 1973-1974 Great Experiment Hall Cox Corridors Following the Revolutionary War, the new American government was first organized under the Articles of Confederation, but that document gave the federal government too little authority to be effective.
Record group: Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006 (National Archives Identifier: 340) Series: The Constitution of the United States, compiled 09/17/1787 - 09/17/1787 (National Archives Identifier: 595951) MLR Number A-1 1; Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
Gunning Bedford Jr. (1747 – March 30, 1812) was an American Founding Father, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation (Continental Congress), Attorney General of Delaware, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 which drafted the United States Constitution, a signer of the United States Constitution, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for ...
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. [1] Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, [2] the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new ...
William Churchill Houston (c. 1746 – August 12, 1788), a Founding Father of the United States, was a teacher, lawyer and statesman. Houston served as a delegate representing New Jersey in both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1780. [1]
This isn’t the first time Kaller has participated in the auction of a historical document, working with Sotheby’s in November 2021 to sell a Constitutional Convention print for $43.2 million ...
This is the virtue lawmakers need most for a successful legislative session, according to longtime House speaker and Lt. Gov. Scott Bedke. | Opinion
William Jackson (March 9, 1759 – December 17, 1828) was a figure in the American Revolution and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention, and as part of his duties added his signature to the United States Constitution.