Calling for a convention to amend the Constitution might actually be the best way to create a new one. After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of ...

Yet he liked the resulting Constitution enough to become chief ... four-month Constitutional Convention that began in May 1787 in Philadelphia. He had been one of the strongest advocates for ...

The Constitution of the United States has ... When the delegates at Philadelphia convened in May 1787 to revise the ineffective Articles of Confederation, it was a foregone conclusion that the ...

On September 18, 1787, the Constitution was delivered to the Confederation Congress in New York City after it was drafted in ...