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Founding Fathers at Philadelphia Conventions 1787
The article recalls the 55 delegates at Independence Hall during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It notes Washington presiding, key figures like Franklin and Madison, absences such as Jefferson Adams Hancock and Henry, the Virginia Plan, the Great Compromise by Roger Sherman, and Morris’s drafting of the preamble “We the People of the United States.”
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Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
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Roger Sherman
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George III
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