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  2. Jacob Shallus - Wikipedia

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    In 1787, Shallus handwrote the original presentation of the United States Constitution. Shallus's engrossed presentation of the constitution's preamble. Jacob Shallus or Shalus (1750–April 18, 1796) [1] was the engrosser or penman of the original copy of the United States Constitution.

  3. Signing of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    On September 8, 1787, a Committee of Style, with different members, was impaneled to distill a final draft constitution from the twenty-three approved articles. [4] The final draft, presented to the convention on September 12, contained seven articles, a preamble, and a closing statement, cleverly written by Gouverneur Morris so as to make the ...

  4. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Reading of the United States Constitution of 1787. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the federal government.

  5. History of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and was ratified through a series of state conventions held in 1787 and 1788. Since 1789, the Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times; particularly important amendments include the ten amendments of the United States Bill of Rights and the three Reconstruction Amendments.

  6. Constitutional Convention (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. [1] Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, [2] the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new ...

  7. The Federalist Papers - Wikipedia

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    A compilation of these 77 essays and eight others were published in two volumes as The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787, by publishing firm J. & A. McLean in March and May 1788.

  8. Printing of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Preamble detail from a Dunlap & Claypoole original printing of the United States Constitution. The United States Constitution was first printed by Dunlap & Claypoole in 1787, during the Constitutional Convention. From the original printing, 13 original copies are known to exist.

  9. Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States ...

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    The drafting of the Constitution of the United States began on May 25, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to revise the Articles of Confederation.