The U.S. Senate and the nation's history might different if the Constitutional Convention had structured the chamber differently.

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The scene. Origins of the Convention -- The delegates and the State House. Washington and Madison -- In Convention. Randolph introduces the Virginia plan -- Federal versus national. The "two supremes.

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Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated ...

Over the past few decades, conservative activists have patiently set their sights on organizing the first constitutional convention since 1787, invoking a never-used provision of the Constitution that ...

The United States Constitution was signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. We have entered the 237th year of our national Constitution, which ...

The Quarterly Journal was established by Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish under the title Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions. In his introduction to the first issue, dated ...