A letter on God and the Constitution written by George Washington is up for sale after ... speaker of the Pennsylvania House, is signed Sept. 7, 1788, and praises God for the ratification of ...

A letter on God and the Constitution written by George Washington is up for sale after ... speaker of the Pennsylvania House, is signed Sept. 7, 1788 and praises God for the ratification of ...

A seven-page letter signed by George Washington, urging a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress to help ratify the Constitution, fetched just under $1.5 million at an auction Friday.

The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia hosted a virtual “town hall” about George Washington’s influence in shaping the Constitution after the Revolutionary War -- and, as president ...

We do not think so often of Washington’s views on the Constitution, but he was, after all, the presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention, the document’s first signer, and the man who ...

It does show the “rising sun” design that appeared on the back of the chair in which the convention’s president, George Washington, sat. The formal motion to adopt and sign the Constitution was made ...

Not so. As much as I admire Madison, the real father of the Constitution — the man without whom it could never have been framed, ratified or implemented — was George Washington. Washington saw ...

shows President George Washington's personal copy of the Acts of the first Congress (1789), containing the U.S. Constitution and the proposed Bill of Rights, during a media availability ...

George Washington, the first ... You might think that Virginia or New York had the most delegates sign the Constitution but 20 percent of the signers (eight of the 39) were from the state of ...

Despite being the first president, George Washington didn’t actually ... However, he did not sign the constitution. The Boston Tea Party organizer was skeptical of the proposed Constitution ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled ...