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unusual facts about Philadelphia Convention



Franklin Prophecy

The speech was purportedly transcribed by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but was unknown before its appearance in 1934 in the pages of William Dudley Pelley's Silver Legion pro-Nazi weekly magazine Liberation.

John Blair, Jr.

But he was devoted to the idea of a permanent union of the newly independent states and loyally supported fellow Virginians James Madison and George Washington at the Constitutional Convention.

The Great Compromise

The Connecticut Compromise, an agreement reached at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 that largely decided the structure of the United States Congress.


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Farran Zerbe

Frank G. Duffield, editor of The Numismatist, prepared a paper for the 1918 Philadelphia convention of the American Numismatic Association.