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The Virginia Ratifying Convention (also historically referred to as the " Virginia Federal Convention ") was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who met in 1788 to ratify or reject the United States Constitution, which had been drafted at the Philadelphia Convention the previous year. The Convention met and deliberated from June 2 ...
The election of Mr. Marshall to the Virginia Convention of 1788, called to ratify or reject the Constitution proposed for the United States, was a marked tribute to his abilities on the part of the people of Henrico County, then comprising the city of Richmond, and was also striking evidence of his great personal popularity among them.
Jan 1, 2002 · The Virginia Constitution Editorial Note. The three drafts of Jefferson’s proposed bill outlining the “fundamental constitutions of Virginia,” here brought together for the first time, are so important in the light they cast upon Jefferson’s early ideas of government and upon the drafting of the Declaration of Independence that they require special comment and a particular form of ...
Oct 3, 2024 · The Virginia House of Burgesses adopted a Declaration of Rights and a constitution a month later. Virginia’s Declaration was the first and became a model for other states, and for Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence a few weeks later. Included in this excerpt is the beginning of the Virginia Constitution (adopted June 29 ...
The Constitution was sent to the states for ratification, and the stage was set for a debate on the merits of the Constitution, including the need for a bill of rights. Perhaps the most important and radical thing about the ratification debate is that it was a debate. It was a national conversation in which the engagement centered on persuasion ...
In this October 7, 2021, lecture, A. E. Dick Howard discussed the evolution of Virginia’s Constitution from 1776 to the present day. Virginia’s Declaration of Rights (1776) declares all men to be “equally free and independent.”
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On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia voted to approve the document they had drafted over the course of many months. Some did not support it, but the majority did. Before it could become the law of the land, however, the Constitution faced another hurdle. It had to be ratified by the states.
