On September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention endorsed the Constitution created during the four-month-long convention. The U.
The closing endorsement section of the United States Constitution
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy (1940)
Gouverneur Morris, author of the Constitution's closing endorsement
Independence Hall's Assembly Room, where both the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were debated and signed.
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally inc
Signing of the United States Constitution
…On September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention endorsed the Constitution created during the four-month-long convention. The U.S. Constitution lays out the frame of the nation's federal government and delineates how its three…
Page one of Jacob Shallus' officially engrossed copy of the Constitution signed in Philadelphia by delegates of the Constitutional Convention in 1787
"We the People" in its original edition