At the time of the writing of the Constitution, there was no formal legal power behind it. Representatives from each of the individual states met to discuss improvements to the Articles of Confederation and ultimately produced a new document, which individual states later chose to ratify.
The constitution of the United states was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was signed in Virginia by 52 people. The founding fathers signed the Constitution in Philadelphia. It was signed in the white house
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The US Constitution.
At the time of the writing of the Constitution, there was no formal legal power behind it. Representatives from each of the individual states met to discuss improvements to the Articles of Confederation and ultimately produced a new document, which individual states later chose to ratify.
The constitution of the United states was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was signed in Virginia by 52 people. The founding fathers signed the Constitution in Philadelphia. It was signed in the white house
The convention met from May 1787 to September.
55 men who came from the 13 colonies and they met from May to Sept. to write the constitution. It was a group effort.
The United States Constitution.
The US Constitution.
They met in Philadelphia because they wanted to revise the weakened Articles of Confederation. Instead they ended up re-writing the Constitution.
In 1787, the delegates gathered at the Constitutional Convention to vote on and ratify a constitution for the United States. Previously, the county had continued to operate under the Articles of Confederation, but recent problems determining jurisdiction of the states versus the federal government had come up, requiring action.
It was NOT the Declaration of Independence they met to revise, but the Articles of Confederation. They were supposed to modify the Confederation; instead they came up with an entirely new government, described in the Constitution.
The room in Independence Hall (formerly the State House) in Philadelphia. where debates over the proposed Constitution took place (photo by Doug Linder) On May 25, 1787, a week later than scheduled, delegates from the various states met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.
In May of 1787, the Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia. They met there to write a new Constitution in the Pennsylvania State House, the same building where the Declaration of Independence had been signed eleven years earlier. The building is now known as Independence Hall.