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  2. 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 [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789.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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. What a Second Trump Term Means for the Constitution - AOL

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    We tend to downplay the radicalism of Reconstruction, because we like to tell a story of continuity, in which the Constitution written in 1787 has guided us for over 200 years.

  5. The Federalist Papers - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Convention (Constitutional Convention) sent the proposed Constitution to the Confederation Congress, which in turn submitted it to the states for ratification at the end of September 1787. On September 27, 1787, "Cato" first appeared in the New York press criticizing the proposition; "Brutus" followed on October 18, 1787. [9]

  6. 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.

  7. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 - Wikipedia

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    Madison, a delegate from Virginia and future President of the United States, who due to his role in creating the Virginia Plan became known as the "Father of the Constitution", purposely sat up front, stating in the preface to his notes that "in pursuance of the task I had assumed I chose a seat in front of the presiding member, with the other members on my right & left hands.

  8. How Trump has changed and will change the Constitution - AOL

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    One hallmark of Donald Trump’s public service has been a penchant for stress-testing the limits of the law and the Constitution. Much of what Trump did during his first term prompted the ...

  9. Trump's fate and an obscure section of the Constitution ... - AOL

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    Chase's contradictory assessments about Section 3, separated only by a few months, “are almost impossible to reconcile,” law professor Gerard Magliocca has written. Trump's attorneys and ...