In the sweltering summer of 1787, fifty-five delegates gathered in Philadelphia for what we now call the Constitutional Convention. While it sounds like a straightforward meeting today, it was ...

Kansas joins the call for an Article V Convention of States, the Framers’ prescription for America’s survival.

The scene. Origins of the Convention -- The delegates and the State House. Washington and Madison -- In Convention. Randolph introduces the Virginia plan -- Federal versus national. The "two supremes.