Virginia Ratifying Convention
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title:
Virginia Ratifying Convention
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The Virginia Ratifying Convention was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who met in 1788 to ratify or reject the United States Constitution, which had been drafted at the Philadelphia Convention the previous year. The Convention met and deliberated from June 2 through June 27 in Richmond at the Richmond Theatre, presently the site of Monumental Church. Judge Edmund Pendleton, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, served as the convention's president by unanimous consent.
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1788 Convention ratifying the U.S. Constitution
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Ratifying_Convention
date created:
2006-12-07T19:30:44Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T16:39:40Z
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