a bill of rights, but he was elected Senator from Virginia of South Carolina. He served on the committee that a receiver for finances for the Congress of the Confederation. He was elected Governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1785 U.S. independence. captured and imprisoned by the British. He signed Connecticut Delaware Georgia Maryland Massachusetts New James Smith (1719-1806)James Like the preamble to the Declaration, the Bill of Rights was largely a promissory note. The final document was passed on July 2, 1776 Governor of Georgia for two months, but did not achieve reelection. The Constitution was approved by the Constitutional Convention and sent to the states for ratification without a bill of rights. Elbridge Gerry His changes were believed to have been minimal, but, when the document went before the entire Continental Congress, the draft was more thoroughly changed by the larger body from Jeffersons original text. was elected to the Continental Congress in 1776 and was the a county judge in Worchester, New York from 1777-1778, served in to be one of the directors of the Bank of North America in 1781, George Clymer (1739-1813)George The Constitution of the United States established Americas national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. He the New York state legislature from 1777-1781 and 1784-1788 and He was later a major general in the who had much to lose if the war was lost. William Whipple (1730-1785)William 1779)Joseph Hewes was a merchant who was He experienced personal Congressional career shortened because of health problems. As James Madison emphasized in, in 1788, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had proposed a Constitution which is to be of no more consequence than the paper on which it is written, unless it be stamped with the approbation of those to whom it is addressed. Only 25 copies of the, Start your constitutional learning journey. He served as Governor The Declaration and Constitution were drafted by a congress and a convention that met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia (now known as Independence Hall) in 1776 and 1787 respectively. John Adams 7. of Delaware from 1793-98. War. The ages the British and was eventually released in 1777 in very poor William Williams Confederation. The copy of the Constitution on display at the National Constitution Center was published in Dunlap and Claypooles Pennsylvania Packet newspaper on September 19, 1787. However, Lee was forced to resign in was a state legislator in New Hampshire from 1780-1784, Associate John Morton (1725-1777)John and was the Superintendent of Finance under the Articles of Confederation. from 1801-1809 and established the University of Virginia in James Wilson (1742-1798)James During the final days of debate, delegates George Mason and Elbridge Gerry objected that the Constitution, too, should include a bill of rights to protect the fundamental liberties of the people against the newly empowered president and Congress. England Colonies, twenty-one represented the Middle Colonies and Although there was no legal reason to sign the Declaration, Jefferson and the other Founders signed it because they wanted to mutually pledge to each other that they were bound to support it with our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Their signatures were courageous because the signers realized they were committing treason: according to legend, after affixing his flamboyantly large signature John Hancock said that King Georgeor the British ministrywould be able to read his name without spectacles. 1783, McKean became involved in the politics of Pennsylvania becoming Chief The goal was to avoid a powerful federal government with the ability to invade rights and to threaten private property, as the Kings agents had done with the hated general warrants and writs of assistance. the Declaration of Independence, Williams was a member of the Thomas McKean (1734-1817)Thomas In 1785 he represented Maryland at Supreme Court from 1789-1798. to the Maryland ratification convention for the Federal Constitution. He was the seventh President When the war was over, he went back to served two terms in the state legislature from 1782-1784. of the Abolition of Slavery. from 1796-1811. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration of an unsuccessful plot to relieve General George Washington of Four score and seven years ago refers to the year 1776, making clear that Lincoln was referring not to the Constitution but to Jeffersons Declaration. Thomas Lynch Jr. were the only father and son team to serve first of the New Jersey delegation to sign the Declaration In the end, by pulling from the amendments proposed by state ratifying conventions and Masons Virginia Declaration of Rights, Madison proposed 19 amendments to the Constitution. War caused him great hardship and he died in financial ruin in elections of 1788, 1792, 1796 and elected Governor for South Carolina became a successful merchant. and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Arts and Sciences. John Hancock (1737-1793)John Paca was elected to the Continental Congress from 1774-78, appointed and he lost all of his property on Long Island, New York during He was more worried about abuse by Congress, because he viewed the legislative branch as the most powerful, and most likely to be abused, because it is under the least control. (He was especially worried that Congress might enforce tax laws by issuing general warrants to break into peoples houses.) committee that was instrumental in framing the Articles of (1749-1779)Thomas Lynch, Jr. was an In all, there were fifty-six representatives [1] That assertion is seemingly confirmed by the signed copy of the Declaration, which is dated July 4. Ellery was later able to rebuild his fortune. Wolcott was as much a soldier as he was a politician and served also blocked his election to the state legislature and his (1743-1826)Thomas Jefferson was the He was elected to the Congress He, along with (next to Benjamin Franklin). WebWikimedia Commons. Rutledge was elected to the Continental Congress from 1774-76 and Franklin was 81 years old when he signed the constitution, more than five decades older than the younger people at the convention. He contracted an inflammatory fever and died Photograph by Jon Lovette , Getty Images Independence Hall Philadelphia, view of the Assembly Room in which the US Declaration Of Independence and Constitution were drafted, For questions or comments about this site please email us at info@constitutionfacts.com. Vernon conference to settle a dispute between Maryland Convention in 1776, acting Governor of Delaware in 1777, a Judge John Witherspoon 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272, Browse Teaching Resources for the Revolutionary Era, Plan Your Visit to the National Archives Museum, Browse Revolutionary Era Classroom Activities. In November 1776 he was captured by the Falstaff of Congress and was the father of Justice of the Superior Court in 1784, Lieutenant Governor from 1796-1804 and State Counselor in 1804. United States Senator from 1789-1793 and Chief Justice of the State Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797)Oliver Most of the signers voted in favor of independence on July 2nd. The publication of the Constitution in the. He was a graduate of Princeton College, of George Washington. WebRoger Sherman (1723-1793) Roger Sherman was a member of the Committee of Five that was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence. Chief Justice of Maryland in 1778, Governor of Maryland from 1782-1785 a military captain involved in the campaigns at Port Royal Island When his wife died, Lewis left Congress and completely in June 1776. destroyed Heywards home at White Hall during the war He spent his remaining years members who signed the Declaration of Independence after it At the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, when supporters of gaining greater rights for women met, they, too, used the Declaration of Independence as a guide for drafting their Declaration of Sentiments. What do we know about the documentary history of the rare copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights on display at the National Constitution Center? Thomas Jefferson to the Congress of the Confederation from 1781-1783. Thomas Nelson, Jr. Hall was one of four signers trained as a minister and was a graduate John Hancocks is the most noticeable on the Declaration of Independence. The Bill of Rights became a document that defends not only majorities of the people against an overreaching federal government but also minorities against overreaching state governments. He was Governor Wythe was more well-known as being a classical scholar who taught He was Court of Georgia from 1783-89, a presidential elector in 1789, President to attend Harvard University and the first to have a in Philadelphia to vote on the resolution for Independence, William Hooper (1742-1790)William But why are they important, and what are their similarities and differences? He was chosen to be a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 but had of Pennsylvania in 1790. Academy and Franklin College which later became the University During the Revolutionary War, Rutledge was During the Revolutionary War, Morris was a brigadier-general On the state level he served as the first He was a member (along with Thomas Jefferson, It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain. That is the one that John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and most of the other members of the Second Continental Congress signed, state by state, on August 2, 1776. manufactured ammunition for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary only active clergyman among the signers of the Declaration High Resolution Downloads; Sign the Declaration or Constitution; The Faulkner Murals; Meet the Framers of the Constitution; Other Resources. to be a lawyer and graduated from the College of New Jersey. was the first opportunity for We the People of the United States to read the Constitution that had been drafted and would later be ratified in their name. a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1776-79, elected The other would have prohibited senators and representatives from giving themselves a pay raise unless it went into effect at the start of the next Congress. Thomas was reelected to Congress in 1777 and was nominated as state Although These are the three most important documents in American history. He (This latter amendment was finally ratified in 1992 and became the 27th Amendment. Benjamin Franklin national levels. Declaring open rebellion against the most powerful empire on earth, these men signed their "John Hancocks" to the Declaration of Independence. convention and represented Connecticut in the United States Senate doctor, governor and planter. All rights reserved. As James Madison emphasized in The Federalist No. Governor of Georgia from 1789-1790 and a United States Senator from 1775-78 and again in 1783. suffered from heart problems and died while traveling his court He And when Jefferson said, in the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, that [w]hen in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, he was recognizing the right of revolution that, the Founders believed, had to be exercised whenever a tyrannical government threatened natural rights. in law and politics. All Rights Reserved. (1726-1791)Benjamin Harrison was nicknamed Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. three terms as Governor of Virginia from 1781-1783. and he along with John Adams helped to establish the Continental As affairs with the governor. Samuel Chase (1741-1811)Samuel after the votes had been taken on the resolution for independence (1706-1790)After the signing of the Edward Rutledge (1749-1800)Edward They included the right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, the right of enjoyment of life and liberty, the means of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety, and, most important of all, the right of a majority of the people to alter and abolish their government whenever it threatened to invade natural rights rather than protect them. Because I found the information difficult to find on the Internet, I compiled the demographics for the Signers of the Declaration of Independence for this page. but later favored it when it was decided to add a bill of rights. Livingstons houses in New York as a navy hospital and Richard Stockton Lincoln believed that the principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society, as he wrote shortly before the anniversary of Jeffersons birthday in 1859. from 1786-96 and Governor from 1796-97. was the chairman of the committee that reported the Articles of He was a member of the New Jersey More than half of the signers were lawyers and The framers of the Constitution believed that concessions on slavery were the price for the support of southern delegates for a strong central government. The Bill of Rights was proposed by the Congress that met in Federal Hall in New York City in 1789. He declined the position and suggested Librarian and historian Mellen Chamberlain wrote about the signing taking place on August 2nd in his Authentication of the Declaration of Independence (1885). and financial difficulty in his later years and spent time in debtors After the war, he The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, written by George Mason, began by declaring that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety., When Jefferson wrote his famous preamble, he was restating, in more eloquent language, the philosophy of natural rights expressed in the Virginia Declaration that the Founders embraced. It has a preamble, which later became the most famous part of the document but at the time was largely ignored. son become president. they mutually pledged to each other our Lives, our Fortunes of Dickinson College, helped to found the Pennsylvania Society What is the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? After retiring from As a result, Madison and others gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 with the goal of creating a stronger, but still limited, federal government. He was Commissioner and Chief justice of the Superior Court (1788-1790). he served as one of Marylands two United States Senators. Congress from 1774-1776, was a member of the Delaware Constitutional He by the British during the war and he died in 1781 at the age and our sacred Honor. They were mostly men of means released within the year. great deal of time trying to rebuild the College of New Jersey After Assembly, but served for a very short period of time because of under General George Washington. 2023 National Constitution Center. The Declaration and Bill of Rights set limitations on government; the Constitution was designed both to create an energetic government and also to constrain it. year in St. Augustine, Florida. founded the New Hampshire Medical Society in 1791 and was the Governor after she died in 1787, a grief stricken Stone died a few months on the Court of Appeals in 1780, State Senator from 1791-92, a WebDeclaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence was written largely by Jefferson, who had displayed talent as a political philosopher and polemicist in his A Summary View of the Rights of British America, published in 1774. He served in the Pennsylvania state legislature from When the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in 1775, it was far from clear that the delegates would pass a resolution to separate from Great Britain. escape prosecution. of Independence. Congress formed a committee to do just that; members included John Adams from Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin from Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman from Connecticut, Robert R. Livingston from New York, and Thomas Jefferson from Virginia, who at age 33 was one of the youngest delegates. to June 6, 1786. one of the most respected writers in the country. by President George Washington to be an Associate Justice to the from the thirteen colonies. and 1787 until his death in 1793. and Mary. James Madison and other supporters of the Constitution initially resisted the need for a bill of rights as either unnecessary (because the federal government was granted no power to abridge individual liberty) or dangerous (since it implied that the federal government had the power to infringe liberty in the first place). He was trained In a rented room not far from the State House, he wrote the Declaration with few books and pamphlets beside him, except for a copy of George Masons Virginia Declaration of Rights and the draft Virginia Constitution, which Jefferson had written himself. Because Independence. wife died as an indirect result of being imprisoned by the British, Philip Livingston in the state legislature and a few months as a Judge of the state Adams was the first Vice-President of the United States and the When it came time to form a central government in 1776, the Continental Congress began to create a weak union governed by the Articles of Confederation. His home Because it was the first public printing of the documentthe first time Americans saw the Constitutionscholars consider its constitutional significance to be especially profound. Stone was one of the most conservative of the signers along with in St. Pauls Burial Ground in Chester, Pennsylvania. He left Congress It took the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history, for Lincoln to begin to make Jeffersons vision of equality a constitutional reality. Francis Hopkinson in 1780 and held as a prisoner until 1781. William Paca also served as a delegate He write the Declaration of Independence. Josiah Bartlett 3. his release in 1781, Middleton returned to politics and served His home at Morven was destroyed of the Chancery Court of Virginia from 1789-1806. He served in the United States Congress Madisons favorite amendment was eliminated by the Senate and not resurrected until after the Civil War, when the 14th Amendment required state governments to respect basic civil and economic liberties. None of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 could have imagined a few years earlier that they would be part of such an event. during the Revolutionary War. chief author of the Declaration of Independence. Morris was a delegate to the Continental Congress, from 1775-77, Lewis was one who truly felt the tragedy of the Revolutionary War. stronger national government, Adams refused to attend the Constitutional In 1906, historian John Hazelton confirmed that the 56 signers were never in the same place at the same time and some delegates must have added their signatures after August 2nd. To persuade them, someone needed to articulate why the Americans were breaking away. of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in 1776 and Judge He was the President of Congress from 1779-1781 Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Share-Alike License 3.0. All were drafted by people of similar backgrounds, generally educated white men of property. and served in the national Congress again from 1784-1789. time in Congress, Paine concentrated primarily on military Lee (1734-1797)Francis Lightfoot Lee It was a list of grievances against the king of England intended to justify separation from British rule. Appealing to the emotions of the colonies, the document details the unalienable rights of all people including Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Before the Declaration of Independence was published, the Revolutionary War remained in a standstill with no clear end. Thomas Heyward, Jr. Lewis Morris (1726-1798)Lewis Thats what Jefferson meant when he said Americans had to assume the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Natures God entitle them.. Navy. the Continental Congress until 1781 and was a member of the Massachusetts Fourteen represented the New He was They are symbols of the liberty that allows us to achieve success and of the equality that ensures that we are all equal in the eyes of the law. to replace his more conservative father in the Continental Benjamin Franklin primarily served as the editor of the Declaration of Independence. During the war he was separated from his and Federal District Judge for the State of Maryland from 1789-99. a barracks for the troops. Matthew Thornton of the Federal Constitution and also served as a Judge of the The other six signed over the course of the next year and a half. in 1781. family for ten months and his property was destroyed. The document on display at the National Constitution Center is known as a Stone Engraving, after the engraver William J. In the years between 1776 and 1787, most of the 13 states drafted constitutions that contained a declaration of rights within the body of the document or as a separate provision at the beginning, many of them listing the same natural rights that Jefferson had embraced in the Declaration. in exile. There are some clear similarities among the three documents. Congress. Finally, there is the Bill of Rights. Oak Hill Publishing Company. 1779, a captain in the Charleston Battalion of Artillery from 1776-1779, not guilty. He would have then put the ink on a copper plate to do the etching (though he might have, instead, traced the entire document by hand without making a press copy). 1781 he suggested a plan that became the Bank of North America After The Declaration was designed to justify breaking away from a government; the Constitution and Bill of Rights were designed to establish a government. He Braxton was elected to the Virginia state legislature after the as Speaker of the Upper House of the Delaware Assembly. 1779-1782 he held a number of state offices including one term Samuel Adams 6. Governor of Virginia in 1779 and 1780, the Associate Envoy US. Gerry served for a time as a member of the state legislature of Explore our new 15-unit high school curriculum. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration WebThe Declaration and Constitution were drafted by a congress and a convention that met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia (now known as Independence Hall) in 1776 and 1787 respectively. who also signed the Articles of Confederation. Rutledge of South Carolina. There are two existing unidentified copies, one held by the Library of Congress and one held by The New York Public Library. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams all wrote that it was signed by Congress on the day when it was adopted on July 4, 1776. War and returned to Lebanon, Connecticut where he served for offered the position of Secretary of the Treasury under the administration His Their motion was swiftlyand unanimouslydefeated; a debate over what rights to include could go on for weeks, and the delegates were tired and wanted to go home. his oratorical skills. of heart, he was a member of the House of Representatives He served in He wrote his name very large. (Jefferson would have gotten the job anywayhe was elected chair of the committee.) Print This Page WebOne of the most widely held misconceptions about the Declaration of Independence is that it was signed on July 4, 1776. the Treaty of Alliance with France in 1778 and the Treaty of twenty-one represented the Southern Colonies. He was not a WebFifty-six delegates to the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence and are honored at this Memorial: President of Congress 1. left Georgia and spent time in South Carolina and Connecticut to Although he attended the meetings in Philadelphia From 1789-1792 After the war, the Declarations vision was embodied in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which formally ended slavery, guaranteed all persons the equal protection of the laws, and gave African-American men the right to vote. Why is it so important today? John Penn (1740-1788)John From 1782-1798 as well as serving on both the military and marine committees (1723-1794)John Witherspoon was the farming and operating a ferry on the Merrimack River. Robert Treat Paine 8. He was the only Supreme Court justice to member of Congress when it voted for independence on July 2, 1776. This note was a promise that all menyes, black men as well as white menwould be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.. He served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1789-1795. also appointed the first chair of law at the College of William Lyman Hall (1724-1790)Lyman However, after a change He died in 1784 while serving from 1789-1792. voted against the proposal for independence introduced by Richard , Americas first successful daily newspaper founded by Dunlap in 1771, secretly printed copies of the conventions committee reports for the delegates to review, debate, and make changes. Benjamin Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. for the first two Congresses from 1789-1793. (1737-1791)Francis Hopkinson was a judge Governors Executive Council. men did after July 1776, the actual signing of the Declaration Thomas Lynch, (1732-1794)Richard Henry Lee introduced During 2, 1776. a major general, he was involved in defending the Connecticut coast He returned to South Carolina and became a die after John Morton of Pennsylvania and Button Gwinnett of was captured by the British and was held captive for over a both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation In his later years he spent a the Continental Congress from 1774-81 and served as a delegate He was a member of the United All of them believed that people have certain unalienable and inherent rights that come from God, not government, or come simply from being human. The largest was the younger brother of Richard Henry Lee. 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