This future president served on the House committee which prepared the Bill of Rights
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Constitutional Convention (United States) - Wikipedia  The Constitutional Convention :31 took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, ... On May 25, the delegations convened in the Pennsylvania State House. George Washington was unanimously elected president of the Convention, and it was ..... include a bill of rights, which he thought could be prepared in a few hours.
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United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia  The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States ..... To reduce future opposition to ratification, Madison also looked for .... On September 21, 1789, a HouseSenate Conference Committee convened to resolve ..... President Washington informed Congress of this on December 30, 1791.
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George Mason - Wikipedia  George Mason (December 11, 1725  October 7, 1792) was a Virginia planter, politician, and a ... The Virginia Declaration of Rights served as a basis for the United States Bill of ... Mason prepared the first draft of the Declaration of Rights in 1776, and his ..... Mason biographer Jeff Broadwater noted that Mason's committee...
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The Signers of the Declaration of Independence - Constitution Facts  He was the President of Congress from 1779-1781 and presided over ... signing the Declaration of Independence, Williams was a member of the committee ... serving as Speaker of the Upper House of the Delaware Assembly. .... Convention in 1786, and was opposed to the Constitution until it incorporated a bill of rights.
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Delegates to the Constitutional Convention: James Madison Jr.  Prior Political Experience: Lower House of Virginia 1776, 1783-1786, Upper House of ... Committee Assignments: Third Committee of Representation, Committee of ... to the Constitution; ten of which became the Bill of Rights; author of the Virginia ... Served as Secretary of State (1801-1809) Elected President of the United...
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Bill of Rights - Library of Congress  Bill of Rights: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Services and ... On September 25, 1789, the First Federal Congress of the United States ... copy of the proposed amendments to the Constitution submitted to the state legislatures...
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Bill of Rights and later Amendments to the United States Constitution  Amendment 6 Right to a fair trial ... Amendment 17 Senatorial elections ... Amendment 20 Terms of office ... Amendment 26 18-year-old suffrage .... Congress shall have power to enforce these article by appropriate legislation. .... If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have...
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Committee of Five - Wikipedia  The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress were a team of five men who drafted and presented to the Congress what would become America's Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This Declaration committee operated from June 11, 1776 until July 5, 1776, ... The draft document as adopted was then referred back to the Committee of...
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Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia  Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for eight...
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The Bill of Rights: Its History and its Significance  This page includes an essay on the history of the Bill of Rights, a listing of the rights ... The original Constitution, as proposed in 1787 in Philadelphia and as ratified by ... The framers, and notably James Madison, its principal architect, believed that .... THE FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION AS RATIFIED BY...
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When They Were Young | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson  Feb 18, 2009 ... On January 20, 2009, Harvard Law School graduate Barack H. ... class of 1755, was one of the most studious future presidents during his time...
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March 4: A forgotten huge day in American history - Constitution Daily  Mar 4, 2013 ... The new Congress quickly took care of an important task, when James Madison introduced the first draft Bill of Rights for consideration by its...
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address by the president to the democratic national convention  There should be one million new jobs for welfare recipients by the year 2000. ..... My fellow Americans, 68 nights from tonight the American people will face once ... the future lies with the party of hope -- and the man from Hope who leads it.
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Bill of Rights and later Amendments to the United States Constitution  Amendment 3 Quartering of soldiers ... Original Ten Amendments: The Bill of Rights ... Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, ... and the votes shall then be counted;--The person having the greatest number of votes .... The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting...
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Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion - Bill of Rights Institute  George Washington, always aware that as the new nation's first President, his ... Bedfordthe first and only time a sitting US President has led troops into the field. ... to the Whiskey Rebellion became, as future-President James Madison put it,...
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Lincoln the Politician before the Civil War - Illinois Periodicals Online  Shortly after announcing he would run, the young Lincoln served in the Black ... the Whig Party's nomination to run for U. S. House of Representatives in 1846. He ... His anti-slavery beliefs were to have great consequences after his election to the presidency. In 1856 he joined the Republican Party and got 110 votes for the...
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Drafting the Declaration of Independence - Constitution Facts  On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.
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1791: US Bill of Rights (1st 10 Amendments) - with commentary ...  The first ten amendments were proposed by Congress in 1789, at their first session; ... The principal author of the Bill of Rights, however, was James Madison. .... The great American statesman Daniel Webster said he doubted whether one ... In addition to protecting many civil liberties that later appeared in the Bill of Rights...
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History of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia  The United States Constitution was written in 1787 during the Philadelphia Convention. The old ..... George Washington was elected the Convention president, and Chancellor ..... On September 17, 1787, following a speech given by Benjamin Franklin, 39 .... These first ten Amendments became known as the Bill of Rights.
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The League of Nations, 1920 - Milestones in the History of U.S. ...  Speaking before the U.S. Congress on January 8, 1918, President Woodrow ... of the United Kingdom, drafted the Covenant as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles. ... the Senate majority leader and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the ...  You have heard his qualifications described in the past several days. ... was nominated in 1860, and a committee brought the news to him at his home in ... First: Because it is the Party of long-range principle, not short-term expediency. ... My second reason for saying that the Republican Party is the Party of the Future is this:...