MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
CREATING STATE CONSTITUTIONS AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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James Wilson
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James Madison
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Alexander Hamilton
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Roger Sherman
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wilson represented Pennsylvania with Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin at the Second Continental Congress, where he signed the Declaration of Independence. After the Revolutionary War, Wilson served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Detailed explanation-2: -James Wilson, (born Sept. 14, 1742, Fife, Scot.-died Aug. 21, 1798, Edenton, N.C., U.S.), colonial American lawyer and political theorist, who signed both the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787).
Detailed explanation-3: -Within the Pennsylvania delegation, John Dickinson (1732-1808) and Robert Morris (1734-1806), both opponents of independence, abstained, leaving Pennsylvania’s delegation 3-to-2 in favor of independence.