The 55 delegates to the constitutional convention argued about, compromised over, and finally agreed upon a written Constitution for the United States during a sweltering summer in: 點擊卡片即可翻轉 👆 A) 1717 B) 1776 *ANSWER C) 1787
"...shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government"--Constitution, Art. IV Sec 4 At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs Powel anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged, asked him directly...
Constitution since the 27th Amendment? Why is the 18th Amendment important? Why was the Commerce Clause written in 1787? Why is the 15th Amendment important? Why was the 11th Amendment created? Why were the Articles of Confederation replaced by the Constitution? Why is the 4th Amendment ...
For the first 15 or 20 years after the Declaration was written, people didn’t celebrate it much on any date. It was too new and too much else was happening in the young nation. By the 1790s, a time of bitter partisan conflicts, the Declaration had become controversial. One party, the...
What He Said:“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” ...
in 1833, none of the provisions in the Bill of Rights applied to the states, they only applied to the federal government and their restrictions (Bowers 43). However, the authors of Nevada’s 1864 constitution included their own Bill of Rights named the Declaration of Rights. The Declaration...
July 4th, 1776 When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? New York, Georgia, Virgina There were 13 original states. Name three. Constitution was written What happened at the Constitutional Convention? 1787 When was the Constitution written? James Madison The Federalist Papers supported the pas...
Disclaimer: This post was written before the 2016 election results, so was a best guess as to how each group would vote. In summary, this how many electoral votes Clinton and Trump might get if the following groups were the only ones allowed to vote: People of Colour*: Clinton 538, Trum...
The U.S. Constitution has 4,400 words. It is the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world. Of the spelling errors in the Constitution, "Pensylvania" above the signers' names is probably the most glaring. ...
-Decision made during Constitutional Convention: Each state given same number of reps in the Senate regardless of size; rep in House was determined by population. -Roger Sherman Declaration of Independence Written in June 1776 Five major parts ...