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William Houstoun (/ ˈ h aʊ s t ən / HOW-stən; also spelled Houston; c. 1755 – March 17, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States, statesman, and lawyer.He served the Province of Georgia as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later the State of Georgia to the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787.
William Few Jr. (June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, politician and jurist.He represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
Telfair was a member of a Committee of Safety (1775–1776) and was a delegate to the Georgia Provincial Congress meeting at Savannah in 1776. He was also a member of the Georgia Committee of Intelligence in 1776. [9] Telfair was elected to the Continental Congress for 1778, 1780, 1781, and 1782. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation.
Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900–1920 2002. vol 4 of comprehensive history of one county. Scott, Thomas Allan. Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origin of the Suburban South: A Twentieth Century History (2003). Werner, Randolph D. "The New South Creed and the Limits of Radicalism: Augusta, Georgia, before the 1890s."
Lyman Hall was the sole Georgia delegate to attend the Continental Congress.. Though Georgians opposed British trade regulations, many hesitated to join the revolutionary movement that emerged in the American colonies in the early 1770s and resulted in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).
When Shays' Rebellion erupted in Massachusetts in August 1786, Washington was further convinced that a national constitution was needed. [ 162 ] [ 31 ] Some nationalists feared that the new republic had descended into lawlessness, and they met on September 11, 1786, at Annapolis to ask the Congress to revise the Articles of Confederation. [ 163 ]
The resulting constitution, which came to be known as the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, provided for a weak central government with little power to coerce the state governments. [4] The first article of the new constitution established a name for the new federation – the United States of America. [5]
Engrossed copy of the Constitution of the United States, page one. Constitution Week is an American observance to commemorate the 1787 adoption of the United States Constitution. It runs annually from September 17 — proclaimed as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day in the United States — through September 23.