CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the George Washington Book Prize When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal.
The document we revere today as the foundation of our country\'s laws, the cornerstone.
There was reason to doubt whether that would happen.
Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the George Washington Book Prize When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal