In June 1776, amid growing sentiment for American ... which will ever subsist between them." When the Constitutional Convention assembled on the morning of September 17, 1787, the completed ...

Done in Convention by the Unanimous ... in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution having been written in the twelfth year after July 1776. The usage stands in contrast to both the ...

But current Gov. Gavin Newsom is more ambitious, seeking the first national constitutional convention since 1787, even before George Washington was elected president. Newsom thinks he can confine ...

These include a first draft of the 1776 Articles of Confederation ... which was sent to the states for ratification after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, has a starting bid of $1 million.