On June 15, 1787, New Jersey's William Paterson offered an alternative to the Virginia Plan to preserve the equality of the states existing under the Articles of Confederation. ...
Three pivotal decisions were made on June 8: the Connecticut Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the New Jersey Compromise. ...
Where is Rhode Island? That is not a question anyone at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 would have asked. Not because they didn’t want Rhode Island to be represented at the...
On day one of the convention, the delegates unanimously selected George Washington as president of the proceedings, and formed the rules committee, which adopted a secrecy provision. ...
The second article in our summer series on the 1787 Constitutional Convention looks at one of James Madison's meetings in preparation for the convention. ...
In May 1787, our Founding Fathers undertook a “grand experiment” to construct a constitution that would avoid contracting the various diseases that destroyed historic bodies politic. ...