Constitutional Convention (September 17, 1787)

Constitutional Convention (September 17, 1787) called for a vote on the new Constitution.

Thirty-nine of the fifty-five delegates at the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution. 

By June 21, 1788, nine of the states had ratified it, establishing the Constitution. All of the states had completed ratification by January 10, 1791.

Virtually all of the 55 writers and signers of the United States Constitution of 1787, were members of Christian denominations:

29 Episcopalians,

9 Presbyterians,

7 Congregationalists,

2 Lutherans,

2 Dutch Reformed,

2 Methodists,

2 Roman Catholics,

1 lapsed Quaker and sometimes Anglican, and 1 open Deist-Dr. Franklin who attended every kind of Christian worship, called for public prayer, and contributed to all denominations.

[See Congress of the United States of America, January 19, 1853.]:

<NEW HAMPSHIRE

John Langdon (Congregationalist)

Nicholas Gilman (Congregationalist) 

MASSACHUSETTS

Elbridge Gerry (Episcopalian)

Rufus King (Episcopalian)

Caleb Strong (Congregationalist)

Nathaniel Gorham (Congregationalist)

CONNCETICUT

Roger Sherman (Congregationalist)

William Samuel Johnson (Episcopalian)

Oliver Ellsworth (Congregationalist)

NEW YORK

Alexander Hamilton (Episcopalian)

John Lansing (Dutch Reformed)

Robert Yates (Dutch Reformed)

NEW JERSEY

William Patterson (Prespyterian)

William Livingston (Presbyterian)

Jonathan Dayton (Episcopalian)

David Brearly (Episcopalian)

William Churchill Houston (Presbyterian)

PENNSYLVANIA

Benjamin Franklin (Deist)

Robert Morris (Episcopalian)

James Wilson (Episcopalian/Deist)

Gouverneur Morris (Episcopalian)

Thomas Mifflin (Quaker/Lutheran)

George Clymer (Quaker/Lutheran)

Thomas FitzSimmons (Roman Catholic)

Jared Ingersoll (Presbyterian)

DELAWARE

John Dickinson (Quaker/Episcopalian)

George Read (Episcopalian)

Richard Bassett (Methodist)

Gunning Bedford (Presbyterian)

Jacob Broom (Lutheran)

MARYLAND

Luther Martin (Episcopalian)

Daniel Carroll (Roman Catholic)

John Francis Mercer (Episcopalian)

James McHenry (Presbyterian)

Daniel of St. Thomas Jennifer (Episcopalian)

VIRGINIA

George Washington (Episcopalian)

James Madison (Episcopalian)

George Mason (Episcopalian)

Edmund Jennings Randolph (Episcopalian)

James Blair, Jr. (Episcopalian)

James McClung (Presbyterian)

George Wythe (Episcopalian)

NORTH CAROLINA

William Richardson Davie (Presbyterian)

Hugh Williamson (Presbyterian/Deist)

William Blount (Presbyterian)

Alexander Martin (Presbyterian/Episcopalian)

Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. (Episcopalian)

SOUTH CAROLINA

John Rutledge (Episcopalian)

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Episcopalian)

Pierce Butler (Episcopalian)

Charles Pinckney, III (Episcopalian)

GEORGIA

Abraham Baldwin (Congregationalist)

William Leigh Pierce (Episcopalian)

William Houstoun (Episcopalian)

William Few (Methodist).> 1787CC011

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American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement.

Endnotes:

1787CC011. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Constitutional Convention. September 17, 1787. Foundations of Freedom-The Constitution & Bill Of Rights (Chesapeake, VA: The National Legal Foundation, 1985), pp. 18-20. M.E. Bradford, A Worthy Company: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution (Marlborough, NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982), p. iv-ix. John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution-The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, A Mott Media Book, 1987; 6th printing, 1993), p. 41-43. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 30. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McClurg


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