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National Constitution Center - Signer's Hall

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 Signer's Hall Signer's Hall During the spring and summer of 1787, fifty-five men gathered in the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) to create a document that would change the world.

These delegates to the Constitutional Convention represented all the original states except Rhode Island.

With George Washington as their presiding officer, the delegates spent four months crafting the most unique document the world had ever seen, giving power to the people of this new nation far beyond any power ever granted to citizens.


Signer's Hall The delegates worked long hours behind locked doors to create the Constitution. There was disagreement, and three delegates refused to sign it because they considered it flawed. Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were out of the country, and did not sign the document.

The Consititution was signed on September 17,1787, but was not ratified by the states until 1788.

The exhibit in the center consists of life-size bronze statues of the signers of the Constitution. Each signer is identified by a sign at the foot of the statue. The visitor can wander among the figures and imagine the sometimes heated debates which led to the signing of the Constitution.

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Signer's Hall

Signer's Hall
The Delegates:

Connecticut:Oliver Ellsworth, William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman
Delaware:Richard Bassett, Gunning Bedford Jr.,Jacob Broom, John Dickinson, George Read
Georgia: Abraham Baldwin, William Few, William Houstoun,William Leigh Pierce
Maryland: Daniel Carroll, Daniel of St. Thomas Jeuiler, Luther Martin, James McHenry, John Francis Mercer
Massachusetts: Elbridge Gerry, Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King, Caleb Strong
Virginia: John Blair, James Madison, George Mason, James McClurg, Edmund Randolph, George Washington, George Wythe
New Hampshire: Nicholas Gilman, John Langdon
New Jersey: David Brearley, Jonathan Dayton, William Churchill Houston, William Livingston, William Paterson
New York: Alexander Hamilton, John Lansing Jr., Robert Yates
North Carolina: William Blount, William Richardson Davie, Alexander Martin, Richard Dobbs Spaight Sr., Hugh Williamson
South Carolina: Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Rutledge
Pennsylvania: George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Benjamin Franklin, Jared Ingersoll, Thomas Mifflin, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, James Wilson

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