User-Created Clip by swifta November 5, 2018 2015-04-25T20:00:26-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/23f/20150425200041003_hd.jpgProfessor Jack Rakove talked about ...

The scene. Origins of the Convention -- The delegates and the State House. Washington and Madison -- In Convention. Randolph introduces the Virginia plan -- Federal versus national. The "two supremes.

Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated ...

The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement reached by members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It provided that all enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of a person for taxation ...

iCivics and George Washington’s Mount Vernon museum are announcing Constitutional Compromise, an online game that teaches kids about the making of the U.S. Constitution. It’s a game about the civility ...

The Quarterly Journal was established by Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish under the title Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions. In his introduction to the first issue, dated ...