![]() ![]() ![]() To encourage delegates to make arguments without fear of recrimination and to discourage mob action in the city, those in attendance kept their deliberations secret during their lifetimes and did not inform the public of the resulting document until September 17, after most of the delegates had signed on to it. The meeting, over which George Washington presided, rested on the reasoned dialogue and compromise of 55 representatives from the 13 original states, except Rhode Island. ![]() Constitutional Convention delegates kept deliberations secret (Public domain)įrom May to September 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention hammered out the U.S. This painting, by Howard Chandler Christy, hangs in the U.S. A painting of George Washington presiding over the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787. ![]()
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