For four months in 1787, 55 delegates from the several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic that would last into “remote

Between 1787 and 1788, a vigorous public debate occurred between the proponents of the ratification of the Constitution of 1787 and those in opposition.

Following the Constitutional Convention, a great debate took place throughout America over the Constitution that had been proposed. These debates took

This site chronicles the creation and adoption of the U.S. Bill of Rights starting with the English and Colonial tradition, and working its way through the