They worked in secrecy in a hot, stuffy room guarded by sentries. For four months during the late spring and summer of 1787, 55 men from across the new American nation argued, cut deals, and fashioned difficult compromises.
When they finally emerged from the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, they had created something remarkable: the Constitution of the United States.
The document established the law of the land. Among other things, it set up the federal government in three parts— the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. But for all the Constitution’s importance, how it was drafted remains largely a mystery to many Americans.
Here are six things you may not know.
They worked in secrecy in a hot, stuffy room guarded by sentries. For four months during the late spring and summer of 1787, 55 men from across the new American nation argued, cut deals, and fashioned difficult compromises.
When they finally emerged from the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, they had created something remarkable: the Constitution of the United States.
The document established the law of the land. Among other things, it set up the federal government in three parts— the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. But for all the Constitution’s importance, how it was drafted remains largely a mystery to many Americans.
Here are six things you may not know.