Constitutional Convention

American  

noun

1. the convention in Philadelphia (1787) of representatives from each of the former Colonies, except Rhode Island, at which the Constitution of the United States was framed.

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Constitutional Convention Cultural  

1. The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787; all states were invited to send delegates. The convention, meeting in Philadelphia, designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches. It established Congress as a lawmaking body with two houses: each state is given two representatives in the Senate, whereas representation in the House of Representatives is based on population.

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Constitutional Convention

At the Constitutional Convention, he explained, one of the Framers tried to put a semicolon into the spending clause.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

Thirteen of the 39 signers of the Constitution were from the South, and it’s estimated that 25 delegates to the Constitutional Convention owned slaves.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

Wilson survived the attack and went on to be a major part of the Constitutional Convention and one of America’s first great constitutional jurists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

At the Constitutional Convention, delegates debated whether to give Congress the power to “make war” or merely to “declare war.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

You have to talk about something, and money seems to have filled the conversational niche made available when people stopped discussing the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris