Category: Founding Fathers

The Framers of the Constitution Advertisement William Pierce, of Georgia, spoke very little at the Constitutional Convention, but his contributions to what we know of the other delegates to the Convention are invaluable. He wrote short character sketches of each of the delegates; he himself had to leave the Convention early for business reasons. He…

Notes From the Constitutional Convention The Avalon Project, supported and hosted by Yale Law School, is a rich source for electronic copies of historical documents. Avalon includes electronic versions of all of Madison’s published notes from the Constitutional Convention. Rather than reinvent the wheel and convert these important documents to this website’s conventions, links are…

Committees at the Constitutional Convention Advertisement Several notable committees met during the creation of the Constitution. These committees are referred to in the Convention Topic Page and the Convention Timeline. This page used James Madison’s notes from the convention as source material for providing the members of these committees. Members of various committees in the…