The Constitution is signed at the Federal Convention of 1787. On September 17, 1787, delegates to a federal convention signed the results of months of work. The Committee of Style brought their finished product to the rest of the delegates on September 12th, along with a proposed Letter to Congress, to send with the Constitution. The Committee had structured all the content that the full committee had approved and had polished the language. Over the next five days, the delegates reviewed, debated, approved, and signed the final version to be presented for ratification.
The framers in their own words describe the “Miracle at Philadelphia.”
George Washington
“It appears to me . . .Little short of a miracle that the delegates from so many different states (which states . . . are also different from each other in their manners, circumstances, and prejudices) should unite in forming a system of national government so little liable to well-founded objections.”
“The adoption of the Constitution will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate.”
“This Constitution is really, in its formation, a government of the people . . . No government before introduced among mankind ever contained so many checks and efficacious restraints to prevent it from denigrating into any species of oppression . . . The balances arising from the distribution of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers are the best that have ever been instituted.”
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For 238 years, this Constitution has been recognized worldwide as the best Constitution ever written! Yet today, most Americans are clueless as to its value!
When enforced, it does what it was designed to do!
When we elect and support men and women, who violate the checks and balances, the purposeful division of powers, then We bear a measure of responsibility for the gradual loss of liberty, the creation of an all-powerful state, and the current state of lawlessness that is destroying the safety and security of all Americans! It is to our national shame that the people have carelessly disregarded such a treasure and despised the work of those who sacrifice everything to bequeath to their posterity the gift of liberty! Dr. Franklin understood well what was at stake and who was ultimately responsible, ‘We the people!’
Today’s question:
How can We, the people, right the wrong, and restore the Constitution as the rightful rule of law in this nation?
Get involved locally!!!
Could those men who deliberated and debated during that long hot summer 237 years ago ever imagine a time when the very document that formed a government that birthed a nation in liberty and prosperity that we once enjoyed, would no longer be honored or upheld?
May we embrace the wisdom and spirit of liberty of that time and dare to be Americans once more!
Letter from the Federal Convention President to the President of Congress, Transmitting the Constitution, September 17, 1787:
Sir,
We have now the honor to submit to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most advisable.
The friends of our country have long seen and desired, that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities should be fully and effectually vested in the general government of the Union: But the impropriety of delegating such extensive trust to one body of men is evident — Hence results the necessity of a different organization.
It is obviously impractical in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all: Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstances, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is not perhaps to be expected; but each will doubtless consider that had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish.
With great respect, We have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency’s most obedient and humble servants,
George Washington, President By unanimous Order of the Convention.
His Excellency, the President of Congress
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