Randolph's listeners in Philadelphia in the spring of 1787 knew what ... of the Philadelphia convention, meeting in secret sessions in the Pennsylvania State House, felt any need for subtlety ...

On May 25th, 1787, what came to be known as the Constitutional Convention convened at the State House in Philly. Originally called merely to tweak the Articles of Confederation that had governed ...

Delegates charged with fixing a broken government met for first time on this day in 1787 at the Pennsylvania Statehouse in Philadelphia ... house and equal representation — two senators per ...

Ben Franklin’s house ... is also gone in Philadelphia, but a replica stands in its place, open for business since 1976. Back in 1787, the delegates who started the convention on May 25th ...

Mrs. House hosted a number of delegates to the convention including ... from the blistering hot Philadelphia climate in the summer of 1787. The delegates met in the State House with the doors ...

What was really important to them in that steamy summer of 1787 in Philadelphia where ... representation for every state no matter its size.” This led to the House of Representatives and the ...

But the method being proposed by a number of state ... Article V convention, has never happened in U.S. history since the very first constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

The 1787 gathering in Philadelphia to write the Constitution was the one and only time state representatives ... chairman of the House Budget Committee, has been a leading convention proponent.

I suspect that same optimism and resolve ruled the hearts and minds of those who met in the summer of 1787 ... Philadelphia with his own best idea of how to reach it. By the end of the convention ...