Monday, June 18, 2012

June 18 at the Constitutional Convention


2012 Constitutional Convention 225th Anniversary, on this date: Delegate Alexander Hamilton proposed a government based as much as possible on the "British model."

Flags of America: the Bunker Hill Flag


Friday, June 15, 2012

June 15 at the Constitutional Convention


2012 Constitutional Convention 225th Anniversary, on this date: Delegate William Paterson presented the "New Jersey Plan."

Flags of America: the Bennington flag

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Happy Flag Day!


Flag Day, June 14, commemorates the adoption of the Unites States Flag by the Second Continental Congress on July 14, 1777.

Monday, June 11, 2012

June 11 at the Constitutional Convention


2012 Constitutional Convention 225th Anniversary, on this date: Delegate Roger Sherman proposed an early version of the "Connecticut Compromise."  Delegates James Wilson and Charles Pinckney propose the three-fifths clause.