| 单词 | Constitutional Convention |
| 例句 | Indeed, had not Madison been the most ardent advocate at the Constitutional Convention for a clear assertion of federal sovereignty? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z You have to talk about something, and money seems to have filled the conversational niche made available when people stopped discussing the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Moreover, there was an even more elemental understanding implicitly codified in Philadelphia but actually predating the Constitutional Convention by many years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His absence from the Constitutional Convention was regretted by all—along with Madison he was regarded as America’s most sophisticated student of government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The fiscal goals Hamilton proposed were synonymous with the national vision Madison had advocated at the Constitutional Convention and in The Federalist Papers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Granted, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had engaged in extensive debates about the slave trade and how to count slaves for the purposes of representation and taxation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Its major advocates were South Carolina and Georgia, and the chief burden for making the case in the Constitutional Convention fell almost entirely on the South Carolina delegation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Distressed by the political disarray in the state governments in the 1780s and the congenital weakness of the Articles of Confederation, Madison had helped mobilize the movement for the Constitutional Convention. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As befitted the central player in the Constitutional Convention, Madison emphasized the various legal obligations imposed by the compact of 1787. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps the most graphic illustration of the singular status that Washington enjoyed was the decision of the Constitutional Convention to deposit the minutes of its secret deliberations with him for safekeeping. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As soon as we are all in our seats, Mr. Fabian begins talking about the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He arrived back in Philadelphia a conquering hero and in plenty of time to be selected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Madison, however, had kept his own extensive “Notes on the Debates at the Constitutional Convention” and carried them down to share with Jefferson, who was in retirement at Monticello. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He fell ill just before the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and almost missed that major moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I’m tired of venerating them, I guess,” she said as she stood amid the 42 life-size bronzes of Constitutional Convention attendees. Thirty Years Later, Heidi Schreck Has Some Amendments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Thus, when delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in 1787, they did not qualify “natural born citizen” merely to protect the presidency from foreign intrigue. Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history is 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Even some liberal judges — refusing to grant conservatives sole possession of the founders — have adopted his approach, grounding their opinions in Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention, “The Federalist Papers” and other historical texts. ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z He comes to this conclusion: Our divided nation needs a new Constitutional Convention. Colin Quinn has fun with the US Constitution 2013-05-14T12:11:37Z And that triggered the series of events that led to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. A New Look at the Often Barely United States 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z The tension was especially apparent at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, where conflicts arose over taxation, representation, and, inevitably, slavery. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z After that, he shaped our modern government by presiding over the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and serving as America's first president. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z As a representative from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, his younger half-brother, Gouverneur Morris, wrote the preamble of the Constitution. In the Bronx, finding hidden ties to Washington 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But at the Constitutional Convention, he was the leading voice for a strong national government, undergirded by popular sovereignty. A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces. Head-Scratching Ensues. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The document is one of 11 surviving copies of the official first printing of the Constitution, which were produced for the Constitutional Convention delegates and for the Continental Congress. Rare US Constitution copy up for auction expected to fetch $15M 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The whole purpose of the 1787 Constitutional Convention was to drastically reduce states’ rights in the Articles of Confederation. Is There a Double Standard for Survivors of Boko Haram? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Gregg Frazer of The Master's College, a Christian liberal arts school in Santa Clarita, Calif., raised an eyebrow at the claim that 52 of the 53 delegates at the Constitutional Convention were "orthodox, evangelical Christians." ArtsBeat: Hard Truth for Author: Publisher Pulls 'The Jefferson Lies' 2012-08-14T13:04:18Z The speakership tradition was thus more than 400 years old by the 1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention. Blame the House, not the Constitution, for the speaker mess | Noah Feldman 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z They were delegates of the First Nations National Constitutional Convention the then-government had asked for advice on how the Indigenous population could be acknowledged in the constitution. Man runs almost 9,000 miles across Australia to raise support for Indigenous Voice 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z “What kind of government do we have?” a woman reportedly asked Benjamin Franklin as he left the Constitutional Convention. Opinion: Trump is running despite the 14th Amendment. He's not the first insurrectionist to do so 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z “As far back as the Constitutional Convention, our leaders recognized the power of our founding documents and the importance of keeping them safe and accessible.” Jill Biden calls swearing in of the 1st woman national archivist ‘momentous’ 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z When the fighting finally ended, Revolutionary War leaders met at the first Constitutional Convention in 1787 to draft their new governing laws. The NRA's toxic fuel 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z He added, quoting from the records of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, that the “legislatures, the framers recognized, ‘are the mere creatures of the state constitutions, and cannot be greater than their creators.’” Supreme Court Rejects Theory That Would Have Transformed American Elections 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z These shortcomings led delegates at the Constitutional Convention to write the Constitution in 1787, which granted the federal government powers such as the authority to tax and to regulate interstate commerce. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Trade barriers among the states were a major impetus for the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Opinion: The Supreme Court says California can regulate pork. That's big, even if you're not a pig 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z They insist that there is nothing in the Constitutional Convention's debates about the judiciary to indicate otherwise. Term limits for the Supreme Court? Yes — it's constitutional, and it's high time 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z General George Washington, fresh from the fighting, didn't just attend the Constitutional Convention, he was the convention president. The NRA's toxic fuel 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z They were delegates of the First Nations National Constitutional Convention that the then-government had asked for advice on how the Indigenous population could be acknowledged in the constitution. EXPLAINER: What is an Australian Black Voice to Parliament? 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z However, a group of Constitutional Convention delegates filed a brief in the case saying their intention was to leave it to the judiciary to determine what was included in Montana’s constitutional right to privacy. Montana lawmaker seeks to overturn abortion ruling 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z On the last day of the Constitutional Convention in September 1787, the prominent Philadelphia socialite Elizabeth Willing Powel supposedly asked Benjamin Franklin whether the fledgling nation's new constitution would create a monarchy or a republic. Democracy depends on whistleblowers like Cassidy Hutchinson — flaws and all 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z That ambiguous phrase, according to most scholars and just about every judge, is the equivalent of "for life," because the delegates to the Constitutional Convention supposedly understood those terms to be interchangeable. Term limits for the Supreme Court? Yes — it's constitutional, and it's high time 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Still, the North Carolina lawmakers rely heavily on a document that many historians regard as a fabrication, written not during the time of the Constitutional Convention in the late 1780s but in 1818. Republicans' Supreme Court bid to let lawmakers overturn elections could badly backfire on GOP 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z "Benjamin Franklin was 81 when he played a critical role in the Constitutional Convention. The issue is capacity, not age." Biden is now America's first octogenarian president. Here's what that means 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z That author, South Carolina politician Charles Pinckney, had been a delegate at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, so his assertion was at least superficially plausible. How James Madison's forensic science work could save American democracy, 200 years later 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z As Edmund Randolph, Virginia’s governor and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, said at the time: “This restriction is provided to prevent corruption.” ‘Father of American Navy’ helmed Russian ship for Catherine the Great Many Native nations closely followed the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention, as legal historian Mary Sarah Bilder has written. Review | A new history of Indigenous America that replicates old myths 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Defense lawyers included former secretary of state Edmund Randolph, former attorney general Charles Lee and Luther Martin, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. A former vice president was tried for treason for an insurrection plot 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z "Benjamin Franklin was 81 when he played a critical role in the Constitutional Convention," Applewhite observed. Biden is now America's first octogenarian president. Here's what that means 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The story begins in 1818 when John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State, was creating an archive of documents about the events that had happened during the Constitutional Convention more than 40 years earlier. How James Madison's forensic science work could save American democracy, 200 years later 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z “He started on the Constitutional Convention of 1897 and worked his way through,” said Murray, who is the Republican nominee for attorney general in November. Delaware vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional, judge rules 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z In fact, the text of the Constitution says nothing about the power of judicial review, and it wasn't explicitly discussed at the Constitutional Convention. How Justice Scalia created chaos: "Originalism" is just right-wing ideology in disguise 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z And Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative, has been pushing what she told the United Steelworkers Constitutional Convention last month was an agenda “that is crafted with workers, for workers.” Opinion | Unions are on a roll. And they unite a divided nation. 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z In 1787, at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, a woman on the street in Philadelphia reportedly asked Benjamin Franklin what form of government the convention had created. It's happening: Abortion rights and the threat to democracy are reshaping the midterms 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Simply, the provision — “approved at the Constitutional Convention without discussion and without opposition,” the U.S. What’s the ‘speech or debate’ clause cited in Georgia probe? 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z That framework became the United States Constitution, and the Philadelphia convention became known as the Constitutional Convention of 1787. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The greatest sticking point when it came to ratification, as it had been at the Constitutional Convention itself, was the relative power of the state and federal governments. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Constitution to make it significantly more conservative by creating a Constitutional Convention among red states. Republicans inch closer to forcing convention to rewrite the Constitution with their fringe ideas 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z He was elected as Vanguard member for Belfast South in the short-lived Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975. Obituary: David Trimble, Northern Ireland's first first minister 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The 1787 Constitutional Convention proceedings show that the drafters unanimously approved federal curtailment of state legislative power to make the rules for federal elections when they adopted the elections clause. Opinion | The Founders intended for federal oversight of elections 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Politicians had sought to avoid the issue of slavery ever since the 1787 Constitutional Convention arrived at an uneasy compromise in the form of the “three-fifths clause.” U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He was an important participant in the Constitutional Convention and authored many of The Federalist Papers. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z In fact, the 1868 Second Constitutional Convention of South Carolina, about which Pike wrote, met in Charleston. History shows racial violence born out of fear of being replaced 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z For example, the notes of the Constitutional Convention have “not a single word,” Waldman writes, about an individual right to a gun, except for membership in state militias. Column: Buffalo, Laguna Woods and the Supreme Court's radical revision of U.S. history 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The House was supported by the larger states at the Constitutional Convention. Constitution’s separation of powers prevents tyranny of majority 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Franklin was asked, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention. Ben Franklin was the most famous American of his era. Ken Burns' new doc shows why 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The United States that emerged from the Constitutional Convention in September was not a confederation, but it was a republic whose national government had been strengthened greatly. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Hamilton had hailed government by the “rich and well born” in the Constitutional Convention, and his fellow New York Federalist John Jay often declared that “the people who own the country ought to govern it.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Congress is based on the proposal that Roger Sherman made at the Constitutional Convention. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In February 1787, Congress approved a Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That Philadelphia meeting became known as the Constitutional Convention. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z How did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention resolve their disagreement regarding slavery? American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z South Carolinians and Georgians had never been as ambivalent about slavery as the Virginians, and vigorously defended it in the Constitutional Convention and the Congress. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z An initial proposal for a Bill of Rights had been rejected at the Constitutional Convention. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Constitutional Convention held its first session on May 25, 1787. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, few issues took up more time at the Constitutional Convention than shaping the office of the presidency. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the chief areas of compromise at the Constitutional Convention was the issue of slavery. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z He guided the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention and enhanced its deliberations by his calming presence. It’s George Washington’s birthday, not Presidents Day 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Encouraged by friends and colleagues, he presided over the Constitutional Convention in 1787. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z McKinnon, however, argued the court’s ruling creates a judicial exception to the public’s right to know and upends the 1972 Constitutional Convention delegates’ intent for open government. Montana court rules against media in closed meeting case 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z At the time of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, only 2 percent of the city’s population were qualified to vote. Opinion | The Exploitation of ‘Freedom’ in America 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The meeting these delegates convened became known as the Constitutional Convention of 1787. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z During the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton was irritated with the hesitancy of other delegates to think beyond state sovereignty. Alexander Hamilton indispensable to America’s success 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The meeting, known as the Constitutional Convention, included people who had steered the young nation toward independence. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Delegates to Oregon’s Constitutional Convention of 1857 expressed the “holy horror of your California graceless, godless school of politicians” coming to Oregon in search of office, Rosenblum said. Kristof tries to show that Oregon is home in governor’s bid 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z “The Nixon court noted, by way of historical example, that the Constitutional Convention was conducted ‘in complete privacy’ and that the records of the Convention remained confidential for more than 30 years,” Justice Kavanaugh wrote. In Rebuke to Trump, Supreme Court Allows Release of Jan. 6 Files 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z In addition to describing the process of election for the presidency and vice presidency, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention also outlined who was eligible for election and how Congress might remove the president. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z And so, it falls to the Constitutional Convention to decide what kind of country Chile wants to be. Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z At the end of the Constitutional Convention, the framers were deeply divided. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The first item on his agenda — besides choosing the most fitting Chilean pop star to perform at his inauguration — is overseeing the Constitutional Convention. Chile's new president (Taylor's version): Gabriel Boric is a Swiftie 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z “As was true at the Constitutional Convention, the presidential communications privilege cannot fulfill its critical constitutional function unless presidents and their advisers can be confident in the present and future confidentiality of their advice.” In Rebuke to Trump, Supreme Court Allows Release of Jan. 6 Files 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z These powers and limitations were the Constitutional Convention’s response to the failings of the Articles of Confederation. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z “We have to assume that human activity causes damage, so how much damage do we want to cause?” said Cristina Dorador Ortiz, a microbiologist who studies the salt flats and is in the Constitutional Convention. Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z She leads the Constitutional Convention, the first time indigenous Chileans have participated in public office as representatives of their nations. BBC 100 Women 2021: Who is on the list this year? 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z When the Constitutional Convention had ended, Benjamin Franklin was asked what the delegates had given us. Opinion | Feeling Hopeless About Today’s Politics? 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a lady he knew what form of government the convention had produced. Classical education critical for preserving Constitution 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Likewise, those at the Constitutional Convention purposely structured the U.S. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Dr. Dorador, the Constitutional Convention member, walks through a busy market in her hometown, Antofagasta. Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z A Constitutional Convention elected in May 2021 and installed in July has started work on drafting a new document. Chile voters go to polls amid deep divisions 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Published in 1787, there are 13 known copies to have survived from a run of 500 originally printed after the text was settled at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Crypto bid to buy US constitution copy at auction fails 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z There are 13 known copies to have survived from a run of 500 originally printed after the text was settled at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Crypto bid to buy US constitution print raises millions 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The bicameral system established at the Constitutional Convention and still followed today requires the two houses to pass identical bills, or proposed items of legislation. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z And the Constitutional Convention is weighing provisions that could require more local decision-making. Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z He served as a delegate at party conventions, wrote op-eds pushing White Republicans toward more radical reforms guaranteeing Black civil rights and was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867-1868. He was killed on the courthouse steps. Now, a Virginia county honors its first Black elected leader. 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Copies from that first printing, bearing no signatures and believed to have originally numbered about 500, were also furnished to delegates of the Constitutional Convention itself. Sotheby's to auction rare first printing of U.S. Constitution 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Jefferson wrote this during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, in which Massachusetts had threatened open rebellion against a new centralized federal system of governance. Nothing sacred: From Jefferson to Jan. 6, America's toxic mythologies are destroying us 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The first incident took place before any apportionment had even occurred, while the process was being discussed at the Constitutional Convention. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z In 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention engaged in contentious debate, working with urgency to establish a self-governing people capable of representative democracy. Biden commission on Supreme Court isn't moving fast enough — or thinking big enough 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z It produced one of the great speeches at the Constitutional Convention, which Madison dutifully transcribed. Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The Constitutional Convention outright rejected proposals to create a similar body in American government. Meetings. Why? 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The delegates to the Constitutional Convention knew that neither state nor federal officials, acting on their own, would be reliable guardians of liberty. State legislatures have the power to fix election process 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Instead of a true separation of powers, the Constitutional Convention “created a government of separated institutions sharing powers.” American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The Constitutional Convention is made up of 155 citizens, and it is the first in the world to stipulate parity between male and female members. Chile constitution: Sweeping changes possible as independents win 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z This weekend, Chileans are being asked to choose the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention tasked with drawing up a new draft. Chile indigenous: Time to make our voices heard 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The compromise was the product of negotiations at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. EXPLAINER: No evidence ‘3/5 compromise’ aimed to end slavery 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Constitutional Convention to impose fiscal and other restraints on the federal government, and bills to prohibit the government and private employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations. COVID-19 precautions ignored at state Capitol hearing 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Recreating debates from the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Mr. Raskin argued that the Senate must not allow a president to become immune from conduct committed in his last month in office. ‘Dad, I Don’t Want to Come Back to the Capitol’: Raskin Speaks of the Horror of Jan. 6 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Drawing from the 1787 Constitutional Convention and political logic familiar to lawmakers, he insisted forgoing a trial would send the message that future presidents are immune from wrongdoing in their final weeks in office. Senate Agrees Trial Is Constitutional, as Trump Consolidates Votes for an Acquittal 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z In 1866, armed Confederate loyalists stormed the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, murdering 34 Black Americans in an attempt to block suffrage for freed slaves. Opinion | Guns are white supremacy’s deadliest weapon. We must disarm hate. 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Fortunately, I found the section of notes from a day when we thought the Constitutional Convention was not in session that explains how right they were: Opinion | The one day of missing Constitutional Convention notes on impeaching a past president 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z “James Madison saw to it at the Constitutional Convention that, even when the Constitution compromised with slavery, it never used the word ‘slave’ to do so. Analysis | Trump’s ‘patriotic education’ report excuses Founding Fathers for owning slaves and likens progressives to Mussolini 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Led by Edmund Burke, the Hastings impeachment was repeatedly referenced during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and, critically, was conducted entirely after Hastings had left office. Opinion | The Senate can constitutionally hold an impeachment trial after Trump leaves office 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z In your book, "The Oath and the Office," you detail the debate at the Constitutional Convention about impeachment. Trump has been impeached (again) with a week to go: What the hell happens now? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z But a Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, George Mason, argued this was too restrictive, and ultimately the framers settled on adding “or other high crimes and misdemeanors” to the text. Here’s how scholars interpret ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors’ 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was made up of landowners, traders with commercial interests, and members of the “learned professions,” as they called doctors, professors, lawyers and ministers at the time. Opinion | Why I’m exploring a run for governor of Massachusetts 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z “If you look at the debates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, it is pretty clear the framers didn’t think the self-pardon was possible.” Potential Trump self-pardon on shaky legal ground as left-leaning prosecutors loom 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z There was little debate about the pardon power at the Constitutional Convention. Trump has the power to issue preemptive pardons. Here’s how past presidents used it. 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z During the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Alexander Hamilton floated the idea of presidents serving for life, but when put to a vote, the proposal failed 4 to 6. The Founders didn’t prepare for a president who refuses to step down, historians say 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Virginia’s putative leader at the Constitutional Convention, Washington’s first attorney general and second secretary of state, Edmund Randolph, suffers a fall from grace he probably doesn’t deserve. Review | Four presidents who put Virginia’s stamp on early America 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It was no accident that so many members of the learned professions participated in the Constitutional Convention. Opinion | Why I’m exploring a run for governor of Massachusetts 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z First, delegates to the Constitutional Convention were, essentially, elitists. Opinion | D.C. v. Heller could soon go by the wayside 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Bijan Ghaisar’s name belongs with George Floyd’s and Breonna Taylor’s 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z When creating the presidency during the Constitutional Convention, many of the country's founders saw George Washington as the ideal person to hold the office. Washington was silent, but Trump tweets regularly — running for president has changed over the years 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z When the Constitutional Convention allocated two Senate seats to each state, the largest state had roughly 10 times the population of the smallest. Opinion | It’s beyond time to retire the filibuster 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z They were there on the estate in 1787 when he left for the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and grew during his terms as the country’s first president. Fallen tree planted by George Washington gets solemn honors before facing the sawmill 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The constitutional system of presidential selection is a set of uneasy compromises worked out at the very end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Supreme Court to decide the future of the Electoral College 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Besides, as James Wilson stressed during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the federal purse has “two strings” that “both houses must concur in untying.” Opinion | Congress’s power is in its purse. And Trump has snatched it. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z One such effort was in support of rightwing efforts to call a Constitutional Convention, in an attempt to dramatically restrict the powers of the US federal government. Former Republican senator Tom Coburn dies aged 72 after cancer battle 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z It took place in Columbus ahead of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in September. Historian honors suffrage movement by portraying key leader 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the Founders ultimately decided to award the power “to declare war” to Congress. Reporter's Notebook: How the war-powers fight has stretched back decades 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z While at the Constitutional Convention, he knew that Pennsylvania law would liberate those who were in the state more than six months, so he secretly rotated them in shifts back to Mount Vernon. Review | Washington and Franklin: Teamwork that made the new nation work 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z He fought in the French and Indian War, commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution, presided over the Constitutional Convention, and served two terms as president. Dana Perino talks to author about George Washington's forgotten final years 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Jackson Day was added shortly after the 1902 Constitutional Convention that codified into law black disenfranchisement. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: How dare we disparage Rich Uncle Pennybags? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z That’s right around the same time the Founders convened the Constitutional Convention in the United States. Reporter's Notebook: What Saturday's impeachment session could mean for future of Trump trial 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Law and ethics scholar Clark Cunningham from Georgia State University writes that the Founders explained at the Constitutional Convention that "impeachment was intended to have many important purposes, not just removing a president from office." What to think when you’re thinking about impeachment 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z When George Washington arrived in Philadelphia in 1787 to attend the Constitutional Convention, his first ceremonial visit was to the newly expanded home of Benjamin Franklin. Review | Washington and Franklin: Teamwork that made the new nation work 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But according to James Madison’s notes of the Constitutional Convention, George Mason brought up the Hastings case and proposed expanding the definition of impeachment to cover something like it. ‘Constitutional Nonsense’: Trump’s Impeachment Defense Defies Legal Consensus 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Months after the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Alexander Hamilton explained in the Federalist Papers that a commonly understood crime need not be the basis of impeachment. AP FACT CHECK: Distortions in Trump’s legal defense 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention report: “Mr. King asked what was the precise meaning of direct taxation? No one answered.” Opinion | Yes, a wealth tax would be constitutional 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z One can search the Federalist Papers and the records of the Constitutional Convention for clear intent in the minds of the Founders on impeachment. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Their third endeavor together was serving as the two lions at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Review | Washington and Franklin: Teamwork that made the new nation work 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z “The almost universal consensus — in Great Britain, in the colonies, in the American states between 1776 and 1787, at the Constitutional Convention and since — has been that criminal conduct is not required for impeachment.” ‘Constitutional Nonsense’: Trump’s Impeachment Defense Defies Legal Consensus 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Engel suggested people read another sort of rough transcript, too, from July 20, 1787, as delegates to the Constitutional Convention wrestled with the terms of impeaching a president. Splintered US moves to subject Trump to ‘profound disgrace’ 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z "You can't interpret misdemeanor to mean pretty much exactly what the framers rejected at the Constitutional Convention. So, I do think they are trying to make it up as they go along," he said. Dershowitz spars with former law student, CNN analyst over impeachment: 'C'mon Alan' 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Months after the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton explained in the Federalist Papers that a commonly understood crime need not be the basis of impeachment. AP FACT CHECK: Trump suddenly loses interest in stock market 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It was probably there on the estate in 1787 when he left for the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and it grew during his terms as the country’s first president. A 230-year-old Mount Vernon tree, a witness to history, is no more 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z "One of the grave concerns over the impeachment clause at the Constitutional Convention ... was what you see today," he said. Mark Levin: Founding Fathers had 'grave concerns' House would go 'rogue' with impeachment 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The delegates to the Constitutional Convention included impeachment in the Constitution as a consequence of their knowledge of history, a study they believed to be a prerequisite for holding a position in government. The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z His grandfather, Pierce Butler, had been a delegate from South Carolina to the Constitutional Convention, and had introduced its Fugitive Slave Clause, which required the return of captured runaways. It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’ 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The party system that today defines our politics—and its dysfunction—did not exist at the time of the Constitutional Convention but would begin to emerge in the seventeen-nineties. The Danger of the Supermajority Requirement in an Age of Impeachment 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Mason walked out of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, refusing to sign the Constitution because there was no Bill of Rights, and he wanted to end the slave trade. Opinion | George Mason was a conflicted slave owner 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Constitution, I’ve found statements made at the Constitutional Convention explaining that the Founders viewed impeachment as a regular practice with three purposes: Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z How impeachment actually worked would be hammered out through cases like the impeachment of Samuel Chase, a Supreme Court Justice, but, at the Constitutional Convention, nearly all discussion of impeachment concerned the Presidency. The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia completed their work Sept. 17, 1787, and sent the new Constitution to the states for ratification. Tennessee editorial roundup 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z As Franklin left the Constitutional Convention of 1787, after the drafting of the U.S. Justice Neil Gorsuch on his concern for America's future: 'Republics have a checkered history' 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The title is taken from a famous line Benjamin Franklin is said to have told an enthusiastic questioner about the outcome of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Neil Gorsuch slams notion that judges should be political actors shaping outcomes 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z The title comes from a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Gender pronouns part of LGBT fight 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Although this is an Articles of Confederation moment, we do not need a Constitutional Convention. Opinion | We are in our Articles of Confederation moment 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Our founding fathers argued heatedly over four months at the 1787 Constitutional Convention before agreeing on an outline of self-government. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Also obvious and irrelevant is Pulliam’s observation that Jefferson, the Declaration’s primary author, was not at the Constitutional Convention. Opinion | To construe the Constitution, look to the Declaration 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z So giving the president the same power to pardon federal crimes wasn’t controversial at the Constitutional Convention, until the very end. ‘The President himself may be guilty’: Why pardons were hotly debated by the Founding Fathers 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention, Madison said it was “indispensable” to include an impeachment clause in the nation’s founding document. Reporter's Notebook: Impeachment on the table for some Democrats, but not all Democrats 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z After all, the first Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was supposed to only clean up the Articles of Confederation – not toss them out and start over. The Daily 202: Scott Walker plans to crusade for a balanced-budget amendment via constitutional convention 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention, small states insisted on equal power with large states. Review | When political conflict led to compromise, not enmity 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s confusing enough that, during the Constitutional Convention, Rufus King of New York asked “what was the precise meaning of direct taxation.” Perspective | Elizabeth Warren’s popular plan to tax the rich is probably unconstitutional 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z We talk all the time about the “founding fathers” of this nation, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, who attended the Constitutional Convention. A photo of a uniquely American racist act dominates the news, but my photo is an act of equality 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Fellow Republican Bob Gardner argues it’s dangerous to undermine a process first adopted at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 so smaller states could “avoid being overwhelmed in their power and sovereignty.” Colorado Democrats push changes to presidential electors 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Fellow Republican Bob Gardner argues it’s dangerous to undermine a process adopted at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 so smaller states could “avoid being overwhelmed in their power and sovereignty.” Colorado Democrats push changes to presidential electors 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z This is rooted in the “Connecticut Plan,” introduced at the Constitutional Convention. Editorials from around New England 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z “The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy,” said Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, looking to the early experience of direct election of state legislators. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z James Madison was not concerned only about post-election perfidy when he worried, at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that a president might “betray his trust to foreign powers.” Opinion | If Trump is impeachable, so is Pence 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The concept of a House and Senate is the result of the so-called “Great Compromise,” arising from the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Longest-ever government shutdown sees no end – and no compromise – in sight 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The founders specifically considered this possibility during their debates at the Constitutional Convention. Opinion | The People vs. Donald J. Trump 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z James Wilson, a Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention, believed that the president lacked immunity because the Constitution’s text did not grant it explicitly. Can Donald Trump be indicted? Constitutional experts aren’t sure 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Randolph had been a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and Virginia’s attorney general. Nominating a crony, loyalist or old buddy for attorney general is a U.S. presidential tradition 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z At the urging of delegates George Mason and James Madison, the scope of impeachable offenses was broadened at the Constitutional Convention from treason and bribery -- but only to a point. Democrats poised to make historic impeachment push, after dust from midterms settles 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Delegates to the Constitutional Convention differed as to whether voters should directly elect the president. Longest-ever government shutdown sees no end – and no compromise – in sight 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Four years later, he wrote a letter that became part of the permanent record of the 1901 State Constitutional Convention. Rare Decatur hospital photo located in California library 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z DeSantis went on to argue that the Founders were correct to allow slavery in the Constitution because “there was no real chance” it would be abolished at the Constitutional Convention. Florida GOP candidate for governor made excuses for slavery in anti-Obama book 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the Senate was initially granted the exclusive power to appoint Supreme Court Justices; that measure, proposed on June 13th, was accepted without objection. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Unlikely Path to the Supreme Court 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Today in History 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention, Virginia’s George Mason thought judges “surely” ought not preside over the impeachment trials of presidents to whom they owed their jobs; Connecticut’s Roger Sherman agreed. Opinion | The Founding Fathers wouldn’t want Kavanaugh’s confirmation to continue 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention, delegates were well aware that future presidents would be investigated for unseemly behavior and that the pardoning power might be so abused. Donald Trump’s unpardonable endgame: Does the president have unlimited power to pardon anyone? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z There is a reason the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was held privately and no official minutes were kept. Opinion | Government ‘transparency’ has gone too far 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z In 1787, when the Constitutional Convention and an infant republic “hung by a thread,” two imaginative New Englanders solved the problem and saved the day. Opinion | Connecticut is drowning in debt. Should the rest of us have to pay? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Our most important domestic achievements were all bipartisan — from the Great Compromise that saved the Constitutional Convention to the Civil Rights Act to welfare reform. Opinion | Vote ‘veteran’ to get the job done 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Ironically, given that our elected leaders would give this small-state protection away, it is rooted in what is known as the “Connecticut Plan,” introduced at the Constitutional Convention. Editorials from around New England 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The Constitutional Convention did not deal with every contingency. Donald Trump’s unpardonable endgame: Does the president have unlimited power to pardon anyone? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Other students’ work included a song about the Constitutional Convention, a skit about the separation of church and state, and a rap about the Boston Massacre. Thousands of Washington state students see ‘Hamilton’ for $10 — and perform their own work, too 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z On Sept. 14, 1787, delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia put down their quill pens, all but done with the final draft of the country’s founding document they would sign three days later. The epic bender to celebrate George Washington and the newly finished U.S. Constitution 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Nor was it discussed at the Constitutional Convention, when delegates gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to draft the country’s bedrock governing principles. Executive privilege, a flashpoint since George Washington, now roils Russia investigation 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In 1787, the same year the Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia, an enslaved immigrant from Haiti named Pierre Toussaint arrived in New York. Opinion | Here’s who — and what — America wouldn’t have had without Haitians 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z When the Constitutional Convention of 1787 outlined the impeachment power, there was a good deal of clarity regarding when and how it should be employed. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Advocates of mastery learning want to encourage projects — such as designing a school building or reenacting the Constitutional Convention — that don’t lend themselves to report card grades. Perspective | No more A’s, B’s or C’s? That’s what some private schools are talking about. 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z At the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of the government the delegates had created. Opinion | Discarded in the Potomac: Bottles and cans, golf balls and boats 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Sunstein returns again and again to what the Constitutional Convention was trying to accomplish with impeachment. Review | A guide to presidential impeachment, but just in case. Not thinking of anyone in particular. Really. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia concluded on Sept. 17, 1787, and went into effect on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the charter. 37 percent of Americans can’t name any of the rights guaranteed by First Amendment: Survey 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The amendment was adopted at the Constitutional Convention of the state of Louisiana, which was held, according to the journal of its proceedings, to “establish the supremacy of the white race.” Editorials from around Oregon 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z As president, Barack Obama, discerning a defect in the work of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, supplied Article VIII, which has expired. Opinion | Trump may awaken a slumbering Congress 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z While meeting with members and residents took up a good portion of the four-day visit, there was one more thing on their agenda: recommending their members vote “no” on the state Constitutional Convention. Editorials from around New York 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z African-Americans were also involved in the Constitutional Convention that granted the right to vote and hold office, developing and ratifying this document. Arkansas woman recounts grandpa’s post-Reconstruction work 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Founding Father James Wilson used the Sussex Declaration at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to give federal power to the people, two Harvard University researchers told an audience Thursday at the National Archives. Early U.S. government theory argued by Founding Father in Sussex Document 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In fact, civility and a spirit of compromise were required, again and again, to prevent the Constitutional Convention itself from breaking apart in anger and recrimination. Opinion | America is hacking away at its own democratic limb 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Thursday marked the 230th anniversary of the opening of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin’s Complicated Faith 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z It also says a Labour government would establish a People's Constitutional Convention that will consider the option of a more federal UK. Labour manifesto: Kezia Dugdale says party gives Scottish voters a choice - BBC News 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The last time the states met in a convention, the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, they completely changed America’s government. Tennessee editorial roundup 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The Constitutional Convention met in the room where the Declaration was debated and endorsed, and the Constitution implements what the Declaration initiated. Opinion | Gorsuch’s chance to correct Scalia on the Constitution 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Journalists were not allowed to attend the Constitutional Convention, nor were they allowed into early state legislatures or the Continental Congress. Donald Trump Wouldn't Be the First President to Rethink Press Briefings 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The clause was added to the draft Constitution at the Constitutional Convention on Aug. 23, 1787 on a motion by Charles Pinckney of South Carolina. Trump’s troubling tweet: He would almost certainly be violating the Constitution if he continues to own his businesses 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the Founding Fathers made choices that haunt us to this day because we still largely follow their priorities around race and economics. White prosperity over racial equality: It’s (still) the American way 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z “Every one knows the vast sums laid out in Europe for secret services,” argued Elbridge Gerry, a delegate at the Constitutional Convention. What Is an Emolument? Donald Trump Has People Talking About This Part of the Constitution 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z During the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787, the delegates rejected proposals that would have created a privy council to advise the President. Donald Trump, George Washington and the President's Cabinet 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The evolution of the Electoral College During the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the delegates “distrusted the passions of the people” and particularly distrusted the ability of average voters to choose a president in a national election. Three common arguments for preserving the Electoral College – and why they’re wrong 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z During the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the delegates “distrusted the passions of the people” and particularly distrusted the ability of average voters to choose a president in a national election. These 3 Common Arguments For Preserving the Electoral College Are All Wrong 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z He imagines students not only being able to read about the Constitutional Convention, but to actually be in "the room where it happens." Virtual Reality in the Classroom 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z So, near the end of the Constitutional Convention, Charles Pinckney “urged the necessity of preserving foreign Ministers & other officers of the U. S. independent of external influence.” What Is an Emolument? Donald Trump Has People Talking About This Part of the Constitution 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Although the delegates to the Constitutional Convention may not have wished it so, the cabinet has become a flexible institution that serves at the pleasure of the President. Donald Trump, George Washington and the President's Cabinet 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “There is ample evidence that the drafters at the 1970 Constitutional Convention believed they were specifically preserving the right to a 12-person jury when they adopted the current constitution,” Garman wrote. Supreme Court overturns law cutting civil juries to 6 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Only in a Constitutional Convention can new business be raised. Inside the Conservative Push for States to Amend the Constitution 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Ironically, the nonprofit group’s video brings to mind a famous story about Ben Franklin being asked what form of government the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia agreed upon in 1787. Georgetown students tell education watchdog: U.S. Constitution taken ‘too seriously’ 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Sept. 17 is Constitution Day, which commemorates the date on which the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. Teach Civics and Citizenship 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z If you read only the records of the Constitutional Convention and the Lincoln-Douglas debates, you’d have a pretty sophisticated understanding of American history and politics. The State of the Presidential Debate 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Jennings also was president of the Indiana Constitutional Convention and helped write the state’s constitution. Stretch of Interstate 65 named for Indiana’s 1st governor 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Washington had not yet become America’s first president, but he had just as important a role at age 55 when he was unanimously chosen to head the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. How Obama's 55th Year Stacks Up Against 5 Famous Presidents 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z What would a modern group of delegates to a Constitutional Convention look like? A Constitution 2.0 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z As the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered at Independence Hall in the summer of 1787, Connecticut and New Jersey were making plans for a concerted attack on New York. Theodore Roosevelt’s Lessons for Today’s Politics 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z In 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed “to argue without asperity, and to endeavor to convince the judgment without hurting the feelings of each other.” The State of the Presidential Debate 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Under the state constitution as revised in the Constitutional Convention of 1953, amendments must be ratified by a “majority of all citizens of the state voting for governor.” Tennessee editorial roundup 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention, the framers considered several different ways for judges to be selected: by the House of Representatives, the Senate, or the president. Obama’s Ahistorical Scolding About the Supreme Court 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1787, when delegates to the Constitutional Convention were in the heat of their debates, they were obsessed with bribery, influence, and corruption. US elections 2016: ‘The system is rigged, the government coin-operated’ 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z In reality, the university derives its name from a major figure in the American Revolution and delegate of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, a figure with virtually zero name recognition among high school seniors. ASSLaw is the butt of jokes. So what? | Dave Schilling 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Paulin’s favourite president, James Madison, was just 29 when elected to the Constitutional Convention, the group noted. Maryland's youngest-ever mayor, age 20: 'I try to take the bull by the horns' 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The delegates to the Constitutional Convention understood that a judicial mechanism to settle disputes at all levels within a reasonable time was essential to an orderly and just society. Senators are law-bound to consider court nominees 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z A leading figure at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Madison is known as the father of the Constitution. Your Wednesday Briefing: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, President Obama 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The economic program instituted by the Treasury secretary triggered Jefferson’s suspicions, but it wasn’t until he learned what Hamilton had preached at the Constitutional Convention that he put together the whole puzzle. How the Rivalry Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Changed History 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z But the majority of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 knew how undependable militias were. The Historical Problem With the Word 'Militia' 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Mississippi’s Constitutional Convention of 1868 is still called the “Black and Tan Convention,” but only 16 of its 94 delegates were black. Five myths about Reconstruction 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z This has been thought the strongest evidence for Cruz’s position since so many 1790 congressmen had participated in the Constitutional Convention. Ted Cruz is not eligible to run for president: A Harvard Law professor close-reads the Constitution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z From the time he became aide-de-camp to George Washington during the Revolutionary War, through the Constitutional Convention and his time as Treasury secretary, he was operating under Washington’s guidance. Ron Chernow: What Would Have Happened If Alexander Hamilton Lived 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z She entered a fake ticket booth and inspected the props on the desk, which included a paperback about the Constitutional Convention. Leslie Jones: Always Funny, Finally Famous 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z In 1901, as part of a Constitutional Convention, it introduced a poll tax and a literacy test. New lawsuit challenges Alabama voter ID law 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Jefferson, as 202 readers surely know, was our ambassador to France during the Constitutional Convention and thus not involved in formulating the Constitution. The Daily 202: Why Vitter’s last-minute Syrian refugee gambit failed 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, argues Goldstone, weren't nearly as concerned with religion, as some – mostly conservatives – portray them. Views You Can Use: A GOP Fumble on Islam 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z And across the nation on Sept. 17, people will turn to their pocket-sized Constitutions in honor of Constitution Day: the 228th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention delegates signing the document in Philadelphia. A Pocket-Sized Origin Story for the Pocket Constitution 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The former governor of Maryland’s campaign said O’Malley would appear in front of the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday morning after the candidate speaks at the annual Nevada AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention at the Luxor casino-hotel. Democrat Martin O’Malley to campaign outside Trump hotel 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The Vermont senator is scheduled to speak at the Nevada State AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday, then talk with reporters afterward. Democrat Bernie Sanders to visit Vegas, Reno next week 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Romney, who ran for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination and served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Richard Nixon, was chairman of the Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1963. Civil rights panel backs effort to challenge anti-Arab bias 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The meetings of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 were conducted in complete privacy. Seema Iyer breaks down United States v. Nixon 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z In 1824, in retirement 37 years after serving as the Constitutional Convention’s prime mover, James Madison, 73, noted that the 1787 “language of our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founders.” Some GOP candidates are becoming unhinged over gay marriage ruling 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The amendments would also see the establishment of a Constitutional Convention to examine greater devolution to all parts of the UK. Scottish devolution: SNP sends more powers letter to UK minister - BBC News 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Madison acknowledged that states would “accomplish their injurious objects” but they could be “set aside by the National Tribunals.” The 588-year path to limited government 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The peer will present his Constitutional Convention Bill in the House of Lords on Monday, and said it aimed to deliver a "sustainable, balanced devolution settlement that works for the whole UK." Lord Purvis launches Constitutional Convention Bill - BBC News 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z In 2012, the government set up the Constitutional Convention to recommend changes designed to bring the 1937 Constitution more up to date. 3 Decades After Galvanizing Hate Crime, Ireland’s Gays Hail Vote 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z "As a priority, we will set up a people-led Constitutional Convention to directly address this and to drive political reform of Westminster." Election 2015: How parties would reform Parliament - BBC News 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z At the Constitutional Convention, Magna Carta was barely mentioned, and only in passing. The Myth of Magna Carta 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z By subtle increments that were cumulatively momentous, he guided the Constitutional Convention in putting America on a path from “the United States are ” to “the United States is .” Bud Selig’s winning legacy 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Rather than wishing for national cohesion, bemoaning the media or aspiring to a new Constitutional Convention, Congress should pursue an array of practical measures that will restore its ability to be both partisan and productive. End Washington Gridlock With Compromise and Earmarks 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Throughout the Constitutional Convention, citizens gathered anxiously around the hall awaiting the results. Amend the Constitution to Declare Corporations Are Not People 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z If Labour wins the general election, this would be followed by a Constitutional Convention, in the autumn of 2015, and then by legislation. Row brewing over English powers 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z These proposals, he added, would then be debated by the Constitutional Convention, with its recommendations the considered by Parliament. Miliband queries PM devolution plan 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The nation’s was in the 1780s, after the Revolution but before the Constitutional Convention, when the 13 states were linked, barely, by the Articles of Confederation, which George Washington called “a rope of sand.” Bud Selig’s winning legacy 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The party says there are precedents for such a move, including in Scotland where a Scottish Constitutional Convention was created and in 1995 produced a blueprint for Scottish devolution. Change how we're governed - Greens 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The first meeting of the Scottish Constitutional Convention took place in 1989, and in 1997 the U.K. government published a white paper on the topic of a Scottish Parliament. What Happened Last Time Scotland Tried for Greater Independence? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z National Constitution Day commemorates the day when delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document in 1787. USC hosts event to celebrate Constitution Day 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Constitution Day, which is Wednesday, is the anniversary of the day when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 signed the Constitution. Nearly 100 people becoming citizens on SC coast 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Appearing alongside Mr Salmond will be Canon Kenyon Wright, who chaired the Scottish Constitutional Convention that paved the way for the creation of the devolved parliament, and who now backs independence. Salmond to mark devolution date 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The central tenet is for a "People's Constitutional Convention", which would consider a range of matters, including: Change how we're governed - Greens 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z It was issued the year before the Constitutional Convention that would send the confederated former colonies into the epic called the United States of America. Pat Buchanan Ignores The Underlying Reason Richard Nixon Was Forced To Resign 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z First of all, he organized the Constitutional Convention. Lynne Cheney Explains Why James Madison's Presidency Was Underrated 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The former second lady explained that folks like George Mason and Elbridge Gerry didn’t approve of the outcome of the Constitutional Convention largely in part because of the creation of the Veep. Lynne Cheney Explains the 'Dangerous' Vice Presidency to Dick 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The Virginia Plan, as it became known, would set the agenda for the Constitutional Convention. James Madison’s 6 Rules for Success 2014-05-06T04:01:47Z The marriage referendum was recommended by the Constitutional Convention, a body set up to examine several issues in Irish politics and society with a view to reforming the law. Ireland to hold gay marriage vote 2013-11-05T18:59:25Z Ireland's Constitutional Convention, a new body comprised mainly of citizens selected at random which is convened to recommend future amendments to the constitution, advised the government earlier this year that a referendum should be held. Ireland to hold referendum on same sex marriage 2013-11-05T18:19:05Z “A republic, if you can keep it,” as Benjamin Franklin supposedly explained our newborn nation to an onlooker at the Constitutional Convention. Obama’s “Dirty Wars” — and a soiled presidency 2013-06-09T20:00:00Z James Madison and Benjamin Franklin used to wrestle in the rear hallways near the cafeteria at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Couch Slouch: ‘The Olympics without wrestling is like McDonald’s without French fries’ 2013-02-24T23:03:15Z Or would there just be complete chaos in our fiscal affairs, a throwback to the mid-1780s, before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and before Alexander Hamilton took the public debt firmly in hand? Today's Economist: Simon Johnson: The Debt Ceiling and Playing With Fire 2013-01-24T10:00:18Z Writing a constitution might conjure up images of 18th Century events such as the American Constitutional Convention, but it is still a key piece of modern state-building. How do you write a constitution? 2013-01-24T02:01:37Z Jefferson was in France serving as the American minister during the Constitutional Convention. On Constitution Day, test your knowledge 2012-09-17T17:00:00Z Mr. Merry writes about the genius of the presidency that emerged from the 1787 Constitutional Convention; it was an office with virtually no precedent. Letter From Washington: Judging and Ranking U.S. Presidents 2012-07-29T15:30:07Z Most likely a more fundamental merger of nation states is also on the cards, just as the United States did at its Constitutional Convention of 1787. Eurobonds: an essential guide 2012-05-24T11:20:29Z And indeed, it was 225 years ago today that the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia, and our founders, citizens all, began crafting an extraordinary document. Obama?s Barnard commencement speech ? text 2012-05-14T19:51:50Z During this period I called on Roosevelt one day at the offices of "The Outlook," and he handed me the galley-proof of a speech he was to make before the Constitutional Convention at Columbus, Ohio. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z The name honors the memory of Philip Doddridge of Brooke County, who was a prominent member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z Dr. Ridgely was six times a member of the Provincial Assembly, and was also an active member of the Constitutional Convention of Delaware in 1776. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z That year he was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z If you want to take a broad view, the trouble really began with the Constitutional Convention of the State of Alabama in 1901. Jefferson County, Ala., Falls Off the Bankruptcy Cliff 2012-02-18T20:29:17Z In the Virginia Constitutional Convention some votes have been taken, which afford indications that the mixed basis proposition in a somewhat modified form, will prevail. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1847, and is a man universally esteemed for his love of truth and honesty. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z The building became more than ever a national shrine when, in 1787, the Constitutional Convention met there. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z He was a member of the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1820, and was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1820 and to the state Senate in 1822, serving one term in each house. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Locke and Justinian, Mill, Adam Smith, and Vattel divided honors with the Federalist, the Resolutions of ninety-eight, and the Debates of the Constitutional Convention. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z From July 16 to September 28 he acted as president of the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z The great struggle between the North and the South began in the Constitutional Convention. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, where he proved himself "the champion of the State and the author of the doctrine of State Rights." Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z The Constitutional Convention represented to him the contracting People, all the individuals being parties to a Compact whereby every majority pledges itself to protect the minority in matters not essential to the security of all. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z Conference on the Constitutional Convention will convene September 24 and 25 at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus. Tea Party, at Harvard, will explore constitutional convention 2011-08-29T19:49:45Z After the Constitutional Convention, Madison was unhappy because he did not get what he really wanted in the compromise that his colleagues hammered out. An unlikely role model for Obama 2011-08-08T16:15:00Z The title page from Judge Lansing’s second notebook from the Constitutional Convention. City Room: Sotheby's to Offer a Founding Father's Illicit Notebooks 2011-05-09T18:55:51Z After the Constitutional Convention for more than four years the statesman lived quietly at Gunston Hall. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Paine had seen a good deal of Jefferson in Paris, and no doubt their conversation often related to struggles in the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z This meeting, which was the great Constitutional Convention of 1787, was held in Philadelphia, and to it Virginia sent George Washington as one of her delegates. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z Noisiest of these was Patrick Henry, then Governor of Virginia, who refused to attend the Constitutional Convention, opposed the ratification of our fundamental law, and was against its adoption. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z They walked away from the Constitutional Convention fully aware that they had planted a time bomb; they hoped future leaders would find a way to defuse it before it exploded. The Way We Weren't 2011-04-07T09:45:00Z Negroes were now registered as voters by the military authorities, and another Constitutional Convention met in January and February 1868. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z But the more he talked in this way, or reminded the nation of the "Declaration of Independence" and the "Bill of Rights," the more did he close the doors of the Constitutional Convention against himself. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z Another result of these meetings was to revive the anti-slavery movement, which had been put to sleep by the action of the First Constitutional Convention. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z From the close of the Revolutionary War, in 1783, to the sitting of the Constitutional Convention, was a space of only four years. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z At the same moment that this measure was being considered in the Congress, the Constitutional Convention, sitting at Philadelphia, was framing the national Constitution of 1787. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z If what I have said be correct, then the will of the people of Kansas is to be found in the action of her Constitutional Convention. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z He was 'lected just after the Constitutional Convention, when Davis was elected governor. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z The Hubbard squash, then a novelty, was treated by the “Farmer” as seriously as the Constitutional Convention, or the expulsion of foreigners from the mines. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z But the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were men who were fairly representative of all the people. The Short Constitution 2011-01-05T03:01:00.017Z Justice Lansing was a wealthy landowner upstate, a member of an aristocratic family, who had served in the Revolution and had been an anti-Federalist delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. F.Y.I.: Questions About New York 2010-09-03T23:32:00Z A Constitutional Convention had been called and a large majority of the delegates were pledged to favor secession. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z After he led the colonies to independence, George Washington headed up the new country's Constitutional Convention and was anointed America's first president. The Long Presidential Campaign 2010-08-19T18:10:00Z He could recite poetry, quote the Bible, discuss the Constitutional Convention and detail the Peloponnesian Wars -- and frequently did in Senate debates. Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia dead at 92 2010-06-28T11:26:00Z A heading on Kean’s enumeration says it was presented to the Constitutional Convention. Kean University Finds Historic Early Census Count 2010-05-19T01:16:00Z His years of office as Governor of Santa Clara were interrupted by his attending the sessions of the Constitutional Convention at Havana, as a delegate from Santa Clara. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 In March, 1853, General Wilson was elected to the Constitutional Convention by the town of Berlin, and also by his own town of Natick. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z It was this state of affairs that led to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, by whose wisdom the National Union which has proved so solid a bond was organized. The Greater Republic A History of the United States After separate decision by each house to do so, or the request of the President, they could meet in joint assembly as a Constitutional Convention to revise the constitution. A History of the Third French Republic As he is a Mexican, has been a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and is somewhat of a politician, it may be worth while setting down his views. Through Our Unknown Southwest Hall of sessions of the Constitutional Convention, Havana, February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and one. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 When it is desired to have a total revision of the fundamental law, the General Assembly submits the question of a Constitutional Convention to a direct vote of the people. History of the Constitutions of Iowa Martin Van Buren, the chief of the Democracy, was a member of the Constitutional Convention held in Buffalo in 1821, which wiped out that qualification so far as white men were concerned. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years He was elected a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina in 1868. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 In the debates in the New York Constitutional Convention of 1846, numerous cases were cited of this continuing barbarity in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and other states. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times At the end of September, after the close of the Constitutional Convention, preparations were made for renewing the military campaign with more aggressive vigor. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 Confident that the people of Iowa really desired State organization and were anxious for its immediate establishment, the Legislative Assembly passed a bill providing for the election of delegates to a Constitutional Convention. History of the Constitutions of Iowa Robert Dale Owen's daughter, in writing up the Indiana Constitutional Convention and her father's opponents, withheld their names from sympathy for their children. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years From the moment he became delegate to the Constitutional Convention a guard was necessary night and day to watch our home. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 Every twenty years the question of a Constitutional Convention is to be submitted to vote. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Strenuous effort was made to have a majority of the members of the Constitutional Convention pledged to vote for a suffrage plank but it succeeded with only about a third of them. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI It was on the morning of May 4, 1846, that the second Constitutional Convention met in the rooms of the Old Stone Capitol at Iowa City. History of the Constitutions of Iowa The meeting of the Constitutional Convention would be the one chance of the woman suffragists in twenty years.... The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years An official letter was sent by request to the Constitutional Convention of Alabama asking for a woman suffrage clause. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V In Virginia a Constitutional Convention is now in session. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. She devoted much time to work of this character in Montgomery, hoping to bring to bear sufficient influence upon members of the Constitutional Convention to secure some concessions for women citizens. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI In 1844 he served as a Delegate in the Constitutional Convention. History of the Constitutions of Iowa Roswell P. Flower that women should be delegates to the approaching New York Constitutional Convention. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV This common understanding in the National Constitutional Convention and the Naturalization Act of Congress in 1790 certainly enfranchised somewhere between three-fourths and four-fifths of all men in the United States at this time. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V In Ohio the Constitutional Convention closed its labors on the 10th of March, having been in session nearly six months. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. When two months later Governor Vardaman sent his farewell message to the Legislature he mentioned woman suffrage as one of the questions "pressing for solution in a National Constitutional Convention." The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI On Friday morning, November the first, the Constitutional Convention of 1844 adjourned sine die after a session of just twenty-six days. History of the Constitutions of Iowa Petitions were circulated throughout the State, and Mrs. Cranston and Miss Hay went to Dover to present the Constitutional Convention with a memorial, which was referred to the Committee on Elections. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Gay week-end parties also came in boats to enjoy his hospitality, and Washington once spent a day with him during the sitting of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia Fortunately, however, the question was disposed of, before the Constitutional Convention met at Philadelphia, by the failure to secure a treaty. James Madison The Constitutional Convention of 1787 sat with closed doors, and although imperfect reports of the debates have since been published, the injunction of secrecy upon its members was never removed. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy As to the propriety and wisdom of calling a Constitutional Convention there was from the beginning a decided difference of opinion. History of the Constitutions of Iowa Two public meetings were addressed by Mr. Blackwell, and on July 8 the Constitutional Convention itself invited him to speak to its members. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Principles adverse to those of Hamilton prevailed in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 But the canvass for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention of Virginia called him home. James Madison Even before the Constitutional Convention assembled the political reaction was modifying some of the state constitutions. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy At the elections in April the people returned a large majority in favor of calling a Constitutional Convention. History of the Constitutions of Iowa Kentucky665-677 Organization — Efforts to secure Full Suffrage from Constitutional Convention — State Association succeeds in revolutionizing the property laws for women — School Suffrage — Educational facilities, etc. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV We believe, then, we are justified in the statement that white women in New Jersey voted, under State authority, for the members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The first lesson in the South Carolinian policy was given in the Constitutional Convention. James Madison There is evidence of a desire to limit the power of the states in this direction even before the Constitutional Convention of 1787 assembled. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy After a session of thirty-nine days the third Constitutional Convention in the history of Iowa adjourned sine die on Thursday, March 5, 1857. History of the Constitutions of Iowa They had hearings before two committees in September, and presented their arguments to the entire Constitutional Convention in the State House, with a large number of citizens present. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV As one of these men she introduced Gen. Voris, of Ohio, the champion of equal suffrage in the Ohio Constitutional Convention. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Sherman, Roger, willing to permit slave trade for sake of union, in Constitutional Convention, 103; criticises proposal to tax imported slaves, 130; on location of capital, 140. James Madison Although the Constitutional Convention had spared no pains to prevent the publication of its proceedings, the feeling was more or less general that the whole movement was a conspiracy against popular government. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy Before another Constitutional Convention be called, see to it that the public sentiment of this State shall demand suffrage for woman! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The conference met in the hall where the Constitutional Convention had adjourned a few days before. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV In New York the angel of a Constitutional Convention is soon to stir the waters. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Georgia, willing for sake of alliance with Spain to abandon Mississippi navigation, 32; fails to appoint delegates to Annapolis convention, 52; attitude toward slavery in Constitutional Convention, 109. James Madison That the members of the Constitutional Convention declined to confer this power in unequivocal language does not justify the inference that they did not wish and intend that it should be exercised by the courts. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy It may be deemed best, at the next session, to urge an early Constitutional Convention. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I On March 14 six men brought in the mammoth petition for woman suffrage which had been presented to the Constitutional Convention the previous year. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Mrs. Stanton, in 1867, went before the Judiciary Committee of the New York Legislature, asking universal suffrage to be recognized by the Constitutional Convention which was to be held. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Wilson, James, in Continental Congress, 30; on necessity of compromise over slavery in Constitutional Convention, 96. James Madison Outside of the Constitutional Convention the judicial negative appears to have been seldom mentioned. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy The very complimentary comments of the press, and the attention awakened throughout the State, by the presentation of "the memorial" to the Constitutional Convention, had accomplished a great educational work. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The plan of work was perfected, which had been prepared by Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, for an active canvass of the State in behalf of a plank in the approaching Constitutional Convention. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV As representatives of the people, your right to regulate all that pertains to the coming Constitutional Convention is absolute. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Some years afterwards, at the session of a Constitutional Convention in Massachusetts, Mr. King rose to make a motion. Old New England Traits The Southern delegates to the Constitutional Convention, with the exception of the delegates from these states, were prepared to abolish the slave trade. The American Empire The same week Mrs. F. D. Gage called a meeting in Masonic Hall, McConnellsville, and drew up a memorial, which was also largely signed, and presented to the Constitutional Convention. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I In the first Constitutional Convention universal suffrage regardless of sex or color had a considerable vote. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Constitutional Convention at Albany has not had many variations from its customary slate of topics, but it is a noteworthy fact that no New York paper mentioned that Geo. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The first Constitutional Convention of California declared against slavery. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) In the fall of 1861 the voters of the state of Illinois elected delegates to a Constitutional Convention, to frame and submit to the people a new Constitution. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Let us flood the Constitutional Convention with memorials and addresses, trusting to truth and a righteous cause for the success of our efforts. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I As Delaware was to hold a Constitutional Convention in 1897, the National Association was especially interested in pushing the suffrage work there. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The Constitutional Convention of our State, yesterday, negatived—yeas 19, nays 125—the proposition that women should share with men the duties and responsibilities of voters at elections. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He declined a re-election, and was appointed one of the deputies from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention to meet in Philadelphia. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History In the Constitutional Convention of Virginia the basis of representation has been settled by compromise. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 The discussions in the Constitutional Convention were voted to be dropped from the records, because they were so low and obscene. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I This was a remarkable action for the first Legislature after the great defeat in the Constitutional Convention only a few months before. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The Legislatures of 1801 and 1821 furnish you a precedent for extending to disfranchised classes the right to vote for delegates to a Constitutional Convention. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The Legislature of Virginia, and the Constitutional Convention of the same State, now in session, have both passed resolutions in its favor. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 He stood up in the Constitutional Convention and elsewhere for a fair election law, opposed lynching, and he has been outspoken for the education of both races. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization In 1850 a Convention was held at Salem; Mariana Johnson presented a memorial, which was numerously signed and sent to the Constitutional Convention. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Even though a defeat, this was a decided advance over the Constitutional Convention of 1867, when there were but 19 ayes and 125 noes. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The Constitutional Convention of Rhode Island, in 1842, affords another precedent of the power of the Legislature to extend the suffrage to disfranchised classes. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States He was a member of the old Congress in New York, until the assembling of the Constitutional Convention, and took his seat as a member of that body. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Her personal presence in the Constitutional Convention of 1859, secured for the women of that State liberal property rights, equal guardianship of their children, and the right to vote on all school questions. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The decision closed by saying: "A Constitutional Convention may take away the barrier which excludes the claimed right of the appellant, but until that is done we must enforce the law as it stands." The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV As soon as the Constitutional Convention was called by the Legislature of New York, Mrs. Stanton appeared before that body asking not only that the word "male" be stricken from Sec. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In 1850 he was a member of the Maryland Constitutional Convention. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States He was a member of the Constitutional Convention, and when the new government was organized, Washington asked him to accept the treasury portfolio, but he declined, suggesting instead Alexander Hamilton. American Men of Mind In the summer of 1855, delegates were elected to a Constitutional Convention, which later convened at Topeka. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I At the Constitutional Convention held in 1888 an effort was made to secure equal political rights for women, but it received little support. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The action of the Michigan Commission, in refusing to submit a similar amendment to her people, and the adverse report of Mr. Greeley in the Constitutional Convention of New York, had also their depressing influence. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In 1863 he was elected State Attorney for Maryland, and in 1864 he served as a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The following winter I was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention that met in Salt Lake City to form a constitution preparatory to the application of Utah for admission into the Union. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite My pleas before the Constitutional Convention and the people, were for equal legal and political rights for women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I In 1891 no legislative work was attempted beyond the efforts toward securing a representation of women in the Constitutional Convention, which it was supposed would be held at an early date. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Now, we ask you, in the coming Constitutional Convention, to so amend the Second Article of our State Constitution as to wipe out this record of our disgrace. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In 1850 he was a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States When the builders of our Government met in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, slavery was a problem which more than once threatened to wreck the scheme for an indissoluble union of the States. A Short History of Pittsburgh Of these, W. J. Whipper and Robert Smalls were delegates to the Constitutional Convention which met at Charleston in 1868. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The most unjust discriminations against women in the property laws were removed by the Constitutional Convention of 1868. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV New York held a Constitutional Convention, Michigan a Commission, and Kansas submitted the proposition of woman suffrage to a vote of her people. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In 1861 he was a member of the Wheeling Constitutional Convention. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The treaty-making clause of the Federal Constitution was adopted in the Constitutional Convention only after a most vigorous fight against it by those who contended that the authority conferred was too great. Fifty Years of Public Service Probate judge of the county for ten years and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1895. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 In July, 1889, Henry B. Blackwell, corresponding secretary of the American W. S. A., came to Montana to present the question to the Constitutional Convention. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Twenty thousand petitions were rolled up and presented in the Constitutional Convention, asking that the word "male" be stricken from Article II, sec. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II At the close of his Congressional term he was elected a member of the New York Constitutional Convention of 1867. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Away back in war times, I knew him as a member of the Illinois Legislature and as a member of the Constitutional Convention, and subsequently as one of the leading lawyers of the Chicago Bar. Fifty Years of Public Service I was a boy when our family returned to South Carolina in 1870, two years after the adjournment of the Constitutional Convention. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The Constitutional Convention held in 1890-91 was the field of much labor by the State association. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV New York is to hold a Constitutional Convention the coming year. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States In 1848 and '49 he represented the town in the Legislature and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1850. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. Gen. Smalls represented the State in Congress for several terms after 1876, and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1895. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Seats were reserved for the members of the Constitutional Convention, who responded almost unanimously to the invitation to be present. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV A Constitutional Convention is to be held shortly in this State, and we expect to see universal suffrage adopted.... History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1846. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The Constitutional Convention of 1829 at Richmond was one of the most important conventions in the history of the Virginia dissension. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Slavery was not affirmatively recognized in it, though there was much discussion as to it in the Constitutional Convention. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Washington was about to be admitted as a State, and was preparing to hold a Constitutional Convention to frame a State constitution. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV If Beecher is chosen delegate at large to your Constitutional Convention, I think the word male will go out before his vigorous cudgel. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1839. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The Constitutional Convention met in Charleston, January 14, 1868, the Northern men practically dominating the proceedings, and before adjournment a State ticket was nominated. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 David E. Moore, for twenty-three years the Attorney for the Commonwealth for Rockbridge County, and a member of the Constitutional Convention, 1850-51. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson It was admitted on all hands that if the women were allowed to vote for members of the Constitutional Convention, it would be impossible to elect one that would wipe out woman suffrage. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Resolved, That Henry Ward Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frederick Douglass, be invited to represent the Equal Rights Association in the Constitutional Convention to be held in this State in the month of June next. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In 1856 he was elected a member of the Iowa Constitutional Convention. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States This bill sought, of course, to make effective his plan that the whole work of the Constitutional Convention be reenacted. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 It is no disparagement of the work of the last Constitutional Convention to say that experience has already demonstrated the wisdom of this provision. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes In the campaign for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention, slavery was the only question seriously agitated. The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818 During the intervening period he had served in the Legislature of New York, had been a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, had been attorney-general of the State, and had been chosen its governor. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 In 1843 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and in the following year was elected Prosecuting Attorney for his County. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States There were some native white men of the "cracker" element in the Constitutional Convention and also in the first legislature elected. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 It is, perhaps, not improper at this time to call attention to some of the amendments of the existing fundamental law which the next Constitutional Convention will probably be required to consider. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes Speaking of the current impression that the question of slavery was not much agitated in Illinois prior to the Constitutional Convention, Gov. The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818 Later, there came from this same county a man who easily became the leader of anti-slavery sentiment in the Constitutional Convention of 1834 at Nashville, Matthew Stephenson. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 He has served in the Tennessee Legislature, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1865. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States This was one of the problems to be discussed in the Constitutional Convention of 1792. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 The war of Reconstruction in Louisiana was fairly well launched in the Constitutional Convention of 1864. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 George Francis Train on his own initiative spoke for woman suffrage before the New York Constitutional Convention. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian He had served seven years in the Massachusetts Legislature, had been Bank Commissioner, Secretary of the Board of Education, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and Governor of the Commonwealth. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1852, and of the State Constitutional Convention held in the following year. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States For his answer to that question they are respectfully referred to page 704 of the official journal of the Constitutional Convention of 1890. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Connecticut, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 92; her ratification of the Federal Constitution, 107. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government In 1852, he was again elected speaker of the house, and in 1853, and without debate, he was chosen to preside over the Constitutional Convention. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 In 1844, at twenty-eight years of age, he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of New Jersey and made his mark in its proceedings. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 In 1848 he was a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention, and subsequently of the Legislature. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Squire Turner, of Madison County, in the Constitutional Convention of 1849 made a careful summary of the existing economic problems of slavery. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 North Carolina, instructions to her commissioners to the Constitutional Convention, 90; her declaration on the reserved powers of the States, 147. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government He had been a lecturer at Cambridge, a member of the House and the Senate, and of the Constitutional Convention. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 He was well trained for legislative duty,—having served with distinction in both branches of the New-York Legislature and having been a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1867. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 In 1849 he was elected to the State Constitutional Convention, and to the Senate of the first Legislature of California. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States So we called a Constitutional Convention, and we eliminated, as I said, all of the colored people whom we could under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Delaware, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 93; her words of ratification of the Federal Constitution, 104. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Francis W. Bird had been an active member of the Coalition on the Free-soil side, and an active supporter of the project for a Constitutional Convention. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 The curious student is reminded of these difficulties that confronted the Constitutional Convention of 1787 when it met to form our National Constitution. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights In 1846 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and was the same year elected to the State Senate. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States My memory extends back to the organization of the Constitutional Convention of 1820. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Georgia, efforts to prohibit importation of slaves, 4; instructions to her deputies to the Constitutional Convention, 91; her ratification of the Federal Constitution, 106; withdraws from the Union, 220. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in that body his ability was conspicuous. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 That principle of division was the most efficacious restraint on democracy that has been devised; for the temper of the Constitutional Convention was as conservative as the Declaration of Independence was revolutionary. Lectures on Modern history He was a member of the Kansas Constitutional Convention of 1858. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States In the Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts twenty- seven different schemes for a system of representation were pressed. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 New Jersey, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 90; her ratification of the Federal Constitution, 106. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government An act was passed which provided for a secret ballot, and by another act the question of a Constitutional Convention was submitted to the voters of the State. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 This doctrine, now a truism of Constitutional Law, did not find favor in the Constitutional Convention. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 In 1861 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and in the following year was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-Eighth Congress. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States So although the coalition had a majority in the State the proposition for a Constitutional Convention was defeated. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Pennsylvania, instructions to her deputies to the Constitutional Convention, 90; words with which she ratified the Federal Constitution, 105. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government As a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853, Mr. Boutwell had further and better opportunities to make the acquaintance and to observe the ways of the leading lawyers of the State. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 Writing late in life, Madison explained the clause by allusion to what had occurred "in the internal administration of the States," in the years immediately preceding the Constitutional Convention, in regard to private debts. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 There were only fourteen Southerners in the Constitutional Convention at Monterey, but their genius for government made them a fair working majority in the body of forty-eight members. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z The plan was submitted to the people again with a proposition that the choice of delegates to the Constitutional Convention should be by secret ballot. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Jersey Plan, The, States rights, and opposed to national, as proposed in the Federal Constitutional Convention, 105; arguments for it, 106. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Mr. Talbot's first public service of note was as Representative from Billerica in the Legislature of 1852, and he was a member of the Constitutional Convention the following year. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 The Colonial Congresses and Constitutional Convention were dominated by powerful orators. Public Speaking But a fight is to be made to avert this disaster at the Constitutional Convention to be held next month. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe It is, however, a great pity that the labors of this Constitutional Convention were wasted. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Senator George advocated the calling of a Constitutional Convention, to frame a new Constitution for the State. The Facts of Reconstruction In 1853, he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, which consisted so largely of men of exceptional ability. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 A form of petition was approved asking that women might be members of the coming Constitutional Convention and vote on the new constitution. The Life and Work of Susan B. 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