60 Proof Sheets of the Constitution Delivered to Delegates
Sixty proof sheets of the U.S. Constitution were delivered to the Constitutional Convention on August 6, 1787. The document was nearly finished. The delegates had been meeting since May in a Philadelphia summer that was brutal even by the standards of the era. They'd agreed on the basic structure and were arguing over the final language. The Constitution was signed on September 17. The proof sheets that arrived in August were one of the last rounds of corrections before it became the founding document of a republic.
August 6, 1787
239 years ago
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