The Virginia Ratifying Convention was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who met in 1788 to ratify or reject the United States Constitution, which had been drafted at the Philadelphia Convent
Edmund Pendleton, the presiding officer of the convention
James Madison Federalist
Patrick Henry Anti-Federalist
Edmund Randolph Federalist
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The Virginia Conventions were assemblies of delegates elected for the purpose of establishing constitutions of fundamental law for the Commonwealth of Virginia superior to General Assembly legislation
Virginia Ratifying Convention
…89 for, 79 against. The delegates included representatives from modern-day Kentucky and West Virginia, which were part of Virginia at the time. Virginia Conventions Labunski, Richard E. James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006…
The Virginia Constitutional Convention 1829–1830 met in Richmond, Virginia. A convention of three generations, the last gathering of Revolutionary era giants
Raleigh Tavern, Colonial Williamsburg First Virginia Convention met here, 1774
Peyton Randolph 1774, 1775