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The first page of the original handwritten text of the
United States Constitution
, which took
almost four months to draft and over three years to ratify
. The first
Constitutional Convention
began on May 25, 1787, with a
quorum
at the
Pennsylvania State House
in
Philadelphia
to revise the
Articles of Confederation
. Instead the delegates wrote a new constitution, finishing on September 17 of that year, but its
ratification
by all 13 states was not completed until January 10, 1791. Since then
27 amendments
have been made.
Read further:
Page 2
,
Page 3
,
Page 4
Document:
Constitutional Convention
; scan:
National Archives
Archive
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