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After successive recommendations by the Constitutional Convention and the newly-established Confederation Congress, a ...

The Constitution may have been conceived in September, but it was not delivered until nine months later, when it was ratified by New Hampshire (the required ninth out of thirteen states) on June ...

This small leather-bound trunk was used to preserve George Washington’s Constitutional Convention papers. It is hard to imagine the United States without the Constitution.

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. Advertisement ...

While George Washington may have been “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” he was not the United States’ initial president.