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The New Nation · The Constitutional Convention

Journal of the Convention

Philadelphia, summer 1787. James Madison’s day-by-day journal of the Constitutional Convention — the debates, the plans and the compromises, recorded as the framers built the Constitution of the United States, session by session.

May 14
The convention opens
5
Months of debate
83
Daily sessions
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