8th lecture handout

1. The Constitutional Convention (also known as the Philadelphia Convention, the
Federal Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from
May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although the
Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the
intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James
Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than
fix the existing one. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over
the Convention. The result of the Convention was the creation of the United
States Constitution, placing the Convention among the most significant events in
the history of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson in Paris wrote to John Adams in London regarding this, "It
really is an assembly of demigods1
."
Gouverneur Morris.
The man who actually wrote it, meaning he put the pen to the paper.
The initial draft of the Constitution had 23 articles. Morris was largely responsible
for paring it down to 72
.
Father of American constitution
James madison because of his contributions
By September 1787, the convention’s five-member Committee of Style
(Hamilton, Madison, William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut, Gouverneur
Morris of New York, Rufus King of Massachusetts) had drafted the final text.
was signed on September 17, 1787.
US Constitution Table of Contents
Preamble.
Article 1 - The Legislative Branch. Section 1 - The Legislature. ...
Article 2 - The Executive Branch. Section 1 - The President. ...
Article 3 - The Judicial Branch. ...
Article 4 - The States. ...
Article 5 - Amendment.
Article 6 - Debts, Supremacy, Oaths.
Article 7 - Ratification.
Preamble
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America.
1
a being with partial or lesser divine status, such as a minor deity, the offspring of a god and a mortal, or
a mortal raised to divine rank
2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
Subject: US Constitution
Standard: LL.B 4th
semester
Topic: US constitution 1787
MUNIR HUSSAIN KTK
Lecturer
UNIVERSITY LAW COLLEGE
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