Senate Joint Resolution 1 (SJ 1), a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention to amend the United States ...

When the delegates rejected the New Jersey Plan, Roger Sherman proffered what is often called "the Great Compromise ... Constitutional Convention assembled on the morning of September 17, 1787 ...

The last — and only — time the states gathered for a constitutional convention was in 1787, when George Washington had yet to be elected as the United States’ first president. Still ...

Washington's letter acknowledged the necessity of compromise and warned that ... to the states for ratification after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, has a starting bid of $1 million.