Constitutional Convention (United States)
The
Constitutional Convention of 1787, also known as the Federal Convention of
1787, was the meeting at which the
Constitution of the United States was debated and agreed upon. The Constitutional Convention convened on
May 25, 1787, in
Independence Hall in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the
Declaration of Independence had been adopted 11 years earlier, on
July 4,
1776. Although meeting to amend the
Articles of Confederation, over the summer they created a new, more centralized form of government. The new document, the Constitution, was completed
September 17, 1787, and was officially adopted
March 4,
1789. For more detail see
United States Constitution.
One provision of the United States Constitution (Article V) that has never been used authorizes the calling of further constitutional conventions for proposing constitutional amendements upon the request of two-thirds of the states.
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