Recently the National Archives announced a new exhibit that will display the four pages of the Constitution, the additional page with two resolutions of the Constitutional Convention providing the procedure for the ratification and implementation …
Month: September 2025
A National Magazine: Mathew Carey’s American Museum
In July 1788, Mathew Carey, a twenty-eight-year-old Irish immigrant living in Philadelphia, looked back over the past year which had been eventful for both Carey and his adopted country. In 1787 a Convention of delegates …
Absent and Missed: Non-Attendance at the Constitutional Convention
The 1787 Constitutional Convention has been consistently praised. Four of the fifty-five delegates who attended have been particularly honored for their noteworthy contributions—George Washington, James Madison, James Wilson, and Gouverneur Morris. The motivation of the …