Soylent Communications
Notable Names Database: Edmund Randolph
A short biography of this delegate from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention. He is the author of the "Virginia Plan" and he later became the first attorney general of the United States.
Soylent Communications
Nndb: Charles Pinckney
A short but detailed biography of this delegate from South Carolina to the Constitutional Convention. He later served as governor of the state.
Soylent Communications
Notable Names Database: James Wilson
A short but detailed biography of this delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Pennsylvania. Wilson later served as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Ratification and Bill of Rights
This site is provided for by the University of Groningen. Learn about the struggle for approval by the states of the U.S. Constitution, continuous disagreements after the Constitutional Convention between the Federalists and the...
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Digital History
Digital History: Representation: By State or by Population? [Pdf]
Read the opinions of some of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in regard to the very thorny issue of how states would be represented in the national legislature. [pdf]
Digital History
Digital History: Majority Rule vs. Checks and Balances [Pdf]
It is interesting to read how the delegates to the Constitutional Convention thought as they debated important issues such as the checks and balances that should be written into the new Constitution. Read these conversations based on...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: William Richardson Davie
A short but detailed entry on this delegate to the Constitutional Convention from North Carolina. He later served as a Governor of the state and is considered to be the founder of the University of North Carolina.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: A Cast of National Superstars
A brief look at some of those who served as delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, which morphed into a constitutional convention. Pay attention to the class of people who made up the delegates.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Luther Martin
Describes the life of Luther Martin, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Maryland. He did not sign the Constitution, and he later served for many years as the Attorney General of Maryland.
Digital History
Digital History: Local Control vs. National Authority [Pdf]
One of the debates at the Constitutional Convention centered on whether states or a national government would have greater authority. Read a reconstruction of speeches given by delegates to the convention concerning this important issue....
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: Luther Martin 1748 1826
Like many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Luther Martin attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton), from which he graduated with honors in 1766. Though born in Brunswick, NJ., in 1748, Martin moved to...
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: Caleb Strong 1745 1819
Strong was born to Caleb and Phebe Strong on January 9, 1745 in Northampton, MA. He received his college education at Harvard, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1764. Like so many of the delegates to the Constitutional...
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Abraham Baldwin (1754 1807)
An excellent informative biography on Abraham Baldwin who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, founder of the University of Georgia, a member of the Georgia State Legislature and U.S. House of Representatives, and a U.S....
Other
William Leigh Pierce an Account of the Earthquakes (1812)
William Leigh Pierce's written description of an earthquake that struck the area of the Mississippi near Missouri in 1812. Pierce is better known as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Georgia.
Other
Concord Learning Systems: Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
A short account of the life of Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer.
Other
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia: Convention City
Provides information on the famous conventions that Philadelphia is known for, beginning with the Constitutional Convention.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Making the Constitution Terms
Read about Checks and Balances, Balance of Power, the Electoral College, and much more in this informative lesson about the making of the Constitution.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Convention of 1868
Read about the Convention of 1868, which was a direct result of the Radical Congressional Reconstruction Acts passed in 1867, overturning post-Civil War Presidential Reconstruction.
Library of Congress
Loc: Creating a Constitution
A brief article on the efforts of Charles Pinckney along with others to amend The Articles of Confederation. Includes links to original text of unsuccessful amendments to The Articles of Confederation
The Dirksen Congressional Center
Congress for Kids: Independence: Quiz 1
Take this four-question quiz to see how much you know about the United States Constitution.
The Dirksen Congressional Center
Congress for Kids: Independence: Quiz 2
Take this four-question quiz to test your knowledge about the United States Constitution.
The Dirksen Congressional Center
Congress for Kids: Independence: Quiz 3
Take this four-question quiz to see how much you know about the United States Constitution.
US Government Publishing Office
Ben's Guide to u.s. Government: Signers of the Constitution Word Search
A printable wordsearch on thirty-nine of the delegates who signed of the US Constitution.
University of Chicago
The Founders' Constitution: Statement by Hugh Williamson
A short statement by Williamson given during a debate in Congress (1792) on Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4 of the Constitution.
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