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The Founding Fathers Delegates to the Constitutional Convention

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*The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, and declared America a free nation.

* Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and is referred to as the "Father of the Declaration of Independence."

*Thomas Jefferson died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, on July 4, 1826.

*John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence is the largest signature on the document.

*George Mason influenced Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.

*The Articles of Confederation were written during the early part of the American Revolution by a committee of the Second Continental Congress to to limit the power of the central government.

*The United States Constitution was written in 1787 and remains the basic law of the United States.

*James Madison is often called the "Father of the Constitution".

*The United States Constitutional Convention, also known as the Philadelphia Convention, took place in 1787, and is where our United States Constitution originated.

*Benjamin Franklin was the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention.

*Roger Sherman proposed a two-house legislature, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives which broke a deadlock during the Constitutional Convention. His proposal was called the "Great Compromise".

*Edmund Randolph refused to sign because he thought the Constitution needed further protection for individuals' and states' rights. When the Bill of Rights was added, he supported ratification of the Constitution, but did not add his signature.

*Many states were opposed to the Constitution because there was no Bill of Rights included in the original document.

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