Post by Nate on Jan 26, 2006 1:13:35 GMT -5
this is my own personal text so I dont have to email it and get into that stuffs... anyways
Thomas Jefferson did not sign the Constitution. He was in France during the Convention, where he served as the U.S. minister. John Adams was serving as the U.S. minister to Great Britain during the Constitutional Convention and did not attend either.
Of the forty-two delegates who attended most of the meetings, thirty-nine actually signed the Constitution. Edmund Randolph and George Mason of Virginia and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts refused to sign due in part to the lack of a bill of rights.
When it came time for the states to ratify the Constitution, the lack of any bill of rights was the primary sticking point.
Patrick Henry was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, but declined, because he “smelt a rat.”
Because of his poor health, Benjamin Franklin needed help to sign the Constitution. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.
George Washington and James Madison were the only presidents who signed the Constitution.
John Adams referred to the Constitution as “the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen” and George Washington wrote to the Marquis de Lafayette that “It (the Constitution) appears to me, then, little short of a miracle.”
The names of prominent delegates who failed to vote for the Constitution and their reasons for doing so.
-Patrick Henry declined the signing; "He smelt a rat"
-Edmund Randolph, George Mason, and Elbridge Gerry Refused; lack of a bill of rights
The names of prominent delegates who voted for the Constitution and their reasons for doing so.
Thomas Jefferson did not sign the Constitution. He was in France during the Convention, where he served as the U.S. minister. John Adams was serving as the U.S. minister to Great Britain during the Constitutional Convention and did not attend either.
Of the forty-two delegates who attended most of the meetings, thirty-nine actually signed the Constitution. Edmund Randolph and George Mason of Virginia and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts refused to sign due in part to the lack of a bill of rights.
When it came time for the states to ratify the Constitution, the lack of any bill of rights was the primary sticking point.
Patrick Henry was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, but declined, because he “smelt a rat.”
Because of his poor health, Benjamin Franklin needed help to sign the Constitution. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.
George Washington and James Madison were the only presidents who signed the Constitution.
John Adams referred to the Constitution as “the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen” and George Washington wrote to the Marquis de Lafayette that “It (the Constitution) appears to me, then, little short of a miracle.”
The names of prominent delegates who failed to vote for the Constitution and their reasons for doing so.
-Patrick Henry declined the signing; "He smelt a rat"
-Edmund Randolph, George Mason, and Elbridge Gerry Refused; lack of a bill of rights
The names of prominent delegates who voted for the Constitution and their reasons for doing so.