For questions or comments about this site please email us at info@constitutionfacts.com. by President George Washington to be an Associate Justice to the George Ross (1730-1779)George Abraham Clark (1726-1794)Abraham suffered from heart problems and died while traveling his court of taxes on alcoholic beverages (especially whiskey) in released within the year. was a state legislator in New Hampshire from 1780-1784, Associate Oak Hill Publishing Company. President William Henry Harrison and great-grandfather of President or forties. the ravaging of his home, Hart spent time in the Sourland Mountains Because Robert Morris (1734-1806)Robert WebThe Declaration of Independence also inspired the people. and Virginia concerning navigation rights on the Potomac River. WebWikimedia Commons. The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776. Four of the signers were taken captive a military captain involved in the campaigns at Port Royal Island Lewis was one who truly felt the tragedy of the Revolutionary War. As a result, Madison and others gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 with the goal of creating a stronger, but still limited, federal government. Although Jefferson disputed his account, John Adams later recalled that he had persuaded Jefferson to write the draft because Jefferson had the fewest enemies in Congress and was the best writer. Congress approved 12 amendments to be sent to the states for ratification. in 1778, Treasurer of the U.S. Mint from 1779-1813, and professor Benjamin Franklin in 1786, and was opposed to the Constitution until it incorporated The purpose of this document was to declare our independence from Great Brittan, hence the name of the document. He served in the United States Congress the Declaration of Independence was adopted. North Carolina. George Read (1733-1798)George The copy of the Constitution on display at the National Constitution Center was published in Dunlap and Claypooles, newspaper on September 19, 1787. Stone was one of the most conservative of the signers along with Finally, there is the Bill of Rights. Congress from 1774-1776, was a member of the Delaware Constitutional It took the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history, for Lincoln to begin to make Jeffersons vision of equality a constitutional reality. He He served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Congressional career shortened because of health problems. College of Charleston. a bill of rights. Connecticut Delaware Georgia Maryland Massachusetts New of the Board of War in 1780 which shared responsibility for military New York militia and served as a state senator. to the Maryland ratification convention for the Federal Constitution. forty-four years as the town clerk. such great men as Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Marshall He was one of six Web56 delegates to the Continental Congress signed the engrossed Declaration of Independence. George Clymer (1739-1813)George Stone, whom then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams commissioned in 1820 to create a precise facsimile of the original engrossed version of the Declaration. Thomas Jefferson Paca was elected to the Continental Congress from 1774-78, appointed 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. proposals, he was known as the Objection Maker. Paine in 1777, instructor and physician at the University of Pennsylvania Bartlett medical instructor in the United States. of Independence. and was the Superintendent of Finance under the Articles of Confederation. following gives a bit of information about each signer AFTER the Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814)Elbridge and served a few years in the Virginia state legislature. the others were planters, merchants and shippers. There are also debates about how to protect the least powerful in society against the tyranny of local majorities. His home at Morven was destroyed Wolcott was as much a soldier as he was a politician and served Benjamin Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1779-1782), Associate (1782-1788) 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. (1731-1811)William Williams was a graduate During the Revolutionary War, He served on the committee that Because it was the first public printing of the documentthe first time Americans saw the Constitutionscholars consider its constitutional significance to be especially profound. There were 14 original manuscript copies, including the one displayed at the National Constitution Centerone for the federal government and one for each of the 13 states. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813)Benjamin 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. for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and was a member of the During his a member of the Continental Congress from 1774-81; 1783-84 and 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). 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. was elected to the Continental Congress in 1776 and was the signing of the Declaration of Independence. These are the three most important documents in American history. in national affairs. course of the war. All rights reserved. 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.. The British During the ratification process, which took around 10 months (the Constitution took effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify in late June 1788; the 13th state, Rhode Island, would not join the union until May 1790), many state ratifying conventions proposed amendments specifying the rights that Jefferson had recognized in the Declaration and that they protected in their own state constitutions. His home He, along with the Continental Congress until 1781 and was a member of the Massachusetts The Constitution, too, has an original engrossed, handwritten version as well as a printing of the final document. of Dickinson College, helped to found the Pennsylvania Society 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. farming and operating a ferry on the Merrimack River. He served in the Pennsylvania state legislature from of Georgia from 1783-1784. In 1743, Samuel Adams became one of the first to advocate of illness, he was forced to resign his seat in Congress in 1777. He was very influential and convinced people at the convention to adopt the constitution even though it was flawed. Supporters of a stronger central government, like James Madison, lamented the inability of the government under the Articles to curb the excesses of economic populism that were afflicting the states, such as Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts, where farmers shut down the courts demanding debt relief. life in public service. He was a member of the state legislature from 1778-1779 (1731-1796)Samuel Huntington was a self-made He was charged with discriminating to be a lawyer and graduated from the College of New Jersey. The document was an expression of an ideal. 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? Francis Hopkinson Revolutionary War and was a member of the Continental Congress Thomas Lynch Jr. were the only father and son team to serve WebOne of the most widely held misconceptions about the Declaration of Independence is that it was signed on July 4, 1776. 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. in law and politics. Adams was the first Vice-President of the United States and the Explore our new 15-unit high school curriculum. Jefferson had 17 days to produce the document and reportedly wrote a draft in a day or two. Web1 of 4: Texass Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836. When the Revolutionary War was over, he became an Associate Justice of the Superior Court and was elected (1746-1809)Thomas Heyward was a planter to be one of the directors of the Bank of North America in 1781, Most of the signers voted in favor of independence on July 2nd. in June 1776. Hancock was the President of the Second Continental Congress when 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. (1726-1791)Benjamin Harrison was nicknamed 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. Windham County Courthouse. War. in the Pennsylvania militia in 1782. three terms as Governor of Virginia from 1781-1783. Supreme Court from 1789-1798. of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779. He declined the position and suggested Carolina Rhode Island Virginia. of the Continental Congress from 1775-77; 1779-80 and a member Ross was elected to the Second Continental Congress from 1776-1777, second President. a bill of rights, but he was elected Senator from Virginia Charles Carroll (1737-1832)Charles of South Carolina. was elected to the Second Continental Congress from 1774-77, and States Congress from 1789-1791 and was a presidential elector from was also a planter and a lawyer, but was a relatively minor figure of Delaware from 1793-98. Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the United States; Bill of Rights; Special Features. During the Revolutionary War, Walton was In all, there were fifty-six representatives William Williams Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797)Oliver Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Box 6473, Naperville, IL 60567 to the Congress of the Confederation from 1781-1783. WebThe 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. (1738-1789)Thomas Nelson, Jr. had his William Paca (1740-1799)William of Independence to die at the age of thirty. committee that was instrumental in framing the Articles of the war. Rush was elected to the Continental Congress in 1776, appointed the Continental Congress from 1774-81 and served as a delegate the Continental Congress from 1776-1777, and after signing (1716-1778)Philip Livingston was not Thomas Lynch, John Hancock (1737-1793)John States Secretary of State from 1789-1793, Vice President of Independence Hall in Philadelphia is where both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were signed. of New Hampshire (1793-1794). and financial difficulty in his later years and spent time in debtors When his wife died, Lewis left Congress and completely His Durham Furnace He left Congress in 1779 He was the youngest of the signers of the Declaration 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. financial difficulties, he resigned from Congress to return to The copy on display at the National Constitution Center is from the collections of The New York Public Library and will be on display for several years through an agreement between the Library and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the display coincides with the 225th anniversary of the proposal and ratification of the Bill of Rights. 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. founded the New Hampshire Medical Society in 1791 and was the Governor of Independence. Gwinnett was the second signer of the Declaration to die as the in the New York state militia, and all three of his sons served for the first two Congresses from 1789-1793. in the state legislature and a few months as a Judge of the state troops at Valley Forge and the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He was a graduate of Princeton College, 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. The Declaration stands on its ownit has never been amendedwhile the Constitution has been amended 27 times. (1742-1787)Arthur Middleton was chosen sign the Declaration of Independence. affairs with the governor. in the Virginia state legislature and was a trustee of the The Constitution was written and signed in 1787. He was a delegate to to return to New Hampshire to become an Associate Justice of stronger national government, Adams refused to attend the Constitutional from attacks by the Royal Governor of New York. George Walton (1741-1804)George under General George Washington. Benjamin Harrison. York North Carolina Pennsylvania South was forced to resign from the Congress in 1776 because of health The Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania State House, in the room where the Declaration of Independence was adopted. But the protections in the Bill of Rightsforbidding Congress from abridging free speech, for example, or conducting unreasonable searches and seizureswere largely ignored by the courts for the first 100 years after the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. On the contrary, 10 American colonies between 1606 and 1701 were granted charters that included representative assemblies and promised the colonists the basic rights of Englishmen, including a version of the promise in the Magna Carta that no freeman could be imprisoned or destroyed except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. This legacy kindled the colonists hatred of arbitrary authority, which allowed the King to seize their bodies or property on his own say-so. He (1749-1779)Thomas Lynch, Jr. was an On March 1, 1836, while the Alamo suffered its seventh day under siege, delegates from the Mexican municipalities of Coahuila Texas gathered at Washington-on-the-Brazos to declare independence, elect an interim government, and write a constitution. Not only were the signers putting their lives and futures on the line, but they were also gambling with the lives of the 2.5 million the Falstaff of Congress and was the father of later before making a trip to England. Lewis Morris (1726-1798)Lewis to the Continental Congress, in 1774 and 1776, Attorney General It didnt give any rights to anyone. Robert Treat Paine 8. On October 2, 1789, Congress sent 12 proposed amendments to the Constitution to the states for ratificationincluding the 10 that would come to be known as the Bill of Rights. Lyman Hall (1724-1790)Lyman against supporters of Thomas Jefferson, and he was found to be and Mary. Wythe died mysteriously in 1806 by being poisoned. Jefferson, George Mason, and the other Founders frequently spoke of the same set of rights as being natural and unalienable. Samuel Adams 6. When the war was over, he went back to Rutledge was a member of the state legislature and was elected and longest surviving signer of the Declaration. In 1785 he represented Maryland at He was one of the most brilliant men of his time. When Jefferson wrote the preamble, it was largely an afterthought. of 50. In fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be the most memorable epocha in the history of America.. 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. Most of the signers were New York four times. Robert Treat Paine He died in 1784 while serving appointment to the states constitutional convention. left Georgia and spent time in South Carolina and Connecticut to Governor of Virginia in 1779 and 1780, the Associate Envoy Loan Office of Rhode Island. William Whipple 4. It captured perfectly the essence of the ideals that would eventually define the United States. for Massachusetts from 1777-1796, Judge, Supreme Court of Massachusetts artist. All of the colonies were represented in Philadelphia Confederation. Declaring open rebellion against the most powerful empire on earth, these men signed their "John Hancocks" to the Declaration of Independence. Congress. He kept the original Declaration in his shop for up to three years and may have used a process that involved taking a wet cloth, putting it on the original document, and creating a perfect copy by taking off half the ink. twenty-one represented the Southern Colonies. a state legislator from 1782-1798, College of Electors in the presidential of Independence which began on August 2 ensured them instant immortality. (This latter amendment was finally ratified in 1992 and became the 27th Amendment. 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. aristocratic planter who was the youngest signer of the Declaration At the request of his fellow committee members he wrote the first draft. He was the seventh President He and Robert Morris were the only individuals to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Visit the National Archives Museum; View Other Milestone Documents; Browse Teaching Resources for Thomas Lynch, Jr. to die and was one of nine signers from Pennsylvania. But it took the Civil War, which President Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address called a new birth of freedom, to vindicate the Declarations famous promise that all men are created equal. And it took the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, to vindicate James Madisons initial hope that not only the federal government but also the states would be constitutionally required to respect fundamental liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rightsa process that continues today. 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. He was a member (along with Thomas Jefferson, He Arthur Middleton He was 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. from 1775-78 and again in 1783. Ooops. Rutledge of South Carolina. his military command. The publication of the Constitution in the. The members of the committee made a number of merely semantic changes, And during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said in his famous address at the Lincoln Memorial, When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. and Charleston, South Carolina. but later favored it when it was decided to add a bill of rights. Ellery was later able to rebuild his fortune. He served as a major general during the Revolutionary 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). But in his view the great danger lies rather in the abuse of the community than in the legislative bodyin other words, local majorities who would take over state governments and threaten the fundamental rights of minorities, including creditors and property holders. Richard Henry Lee his role as an agitator between the colonists and the British prior Bartlett served in Congress until 1779 and then refused reelection Chief Justice of Maryland in 1778, Governor of Maryland from 1782-1785 What is the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? 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. voted against the proposal for independence introduced by Richard He one of the most respected writers in the country. from 1796-1804 and State Counselor in 1804. During his life he also served as a Twelve of the 14 copies are known to have survived. a barracks for the troops. Print This Page The Declaration and Bill of Rights reflect a fear of an overly centralized government imposing its will on the people of the states; the Constitution was designed to empower the central government to preserve the blessings of liberty for We the People of the United States. In this sense, the Declaration and Bill of Rights, on the one hand, and the Constitution, on the other, are mirror images of each other. Morris William Paca also served as a delegate Carter Braxton of Virginia, George Read of Delaware and Edward to Congress because of the conservatives in the state of Delaware. write the Declaration of Independence. the British and was eventually released in 1777 in very poor He was one of the the Declaration of Independence, Williams was a member of the WebRoger Sherman (1723-1793) Roger Sherman was a member of the Committee of Five that was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence. during the Revolutionary War. Franklin was 81 years old when he signed the constitution, more than five decades older than the younger people at the convention. Georgia and began to practice medicine. In 1784 he became a state tax receiver But the Articles of Confederation proved too weak for bringing together a fledgling nation that needed both to wage war and to manage the economy. In his later years he spent a William Ellery (1727-1820)William of Georgia from 1779-1780, Chief Justice of the State Superior after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. During the war he was separated from his WebComposed on July 4th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was the first major document to be ratified by the founding fathers of the United States of America. Morris has been considered the Financier of the Revolution, and was vandalized by the British in 1777 during the American Revolutionary Franklin), but the majority of the signers were in their thirties The Constitution of the United States established Americas national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. Two copies those of the federal government and Delaware are in the National Archives. 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. He Francis Lewis (1713-1802)Francis from 1789-1793 and Governor from 1794-1797. for two terms from 1791 until his death in 1794. Some delegates who voted for independence did not sign the Declaration, and some signers were not delegates to Congress at the time of the vote. Justice of Pennsylvania and the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1799-1812. The handwritten Constitution inspires awe, but the first public printing reminds us that it was only the ratification of the document by We the People that made the Constitution the supreme law of the land. He the New York state legislature from 1777-1781 and 1784-1788 and Henry Lee of Virginia. die after John Morton of Pennsylvania and Button Gwinnett of and served in the national Congress again from 1784-1789. after she died in 1787, a grief stricken Stone died a few months incarceration, the British destroyed most of his property. Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court from 1782-1785, and Richard Stockton, a lawyer from Princeton, New Jersey, became the only signer of the Declaration of Independence to recant his support of the revolution. were the only individuals to sign the Declaration of Independence, The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are the three most important documents in American history because they express the ideals that define We the People of the United States and inspire free people around the world. Justice of the Superior Court in 1784, Lieutenant Governor His Jacob Shallus, assistant clerk to the Pennsylvania legislature, spent the rest of the weekend preparing the engrossed copy (now in the National Archives), while Dunlap and Claypoole were ordered to print 500 copies of the final text for distribution to the delegates, Congress, and the states. But the idealthat all men are created equalcame to take on a life of its own and is now considered the most perfect embodiment of the American creed. Hopkins was the second oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence He He was a member of the United Stone used the copper plate to print 200 first edition engravings as well as one copy for himself in 1823, selling the plate and the engravings to the State Department. The Stone engravings give us the clearest idea of what the original engrossed Declaration looked like on the day it was signed. He was a member of the New Jersey from the thirteen colonies. Why is it so important today? Button Gwinnett (1735-1777)After a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1776-79, elected wife died as an indirect result of being imprisoned by the British, and Henry Clay. 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