U.S. Constitution 8.15

TEKS 8.4

​Provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.

In the Senate, all states would have the same number of seats. Today, we take this arrangement for granted; in the wilting-hot summer of 1787, it was a new idea

TEKS 8.4

• Drafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, this four-page document, signed on September 17, 1787, established the government of the United States.

• Through discussion and debate it became clear by mid-June that, rather than amend the existing Articles, the Convention would draft an entirely new frame of government. All through the summer, in closed sessions, the delegates debated, and redrafted the articles of the new Constitution

TEKS 8.4

The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached among state delegates during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation

The Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise America's first constitution, the Articles of Confederation - but they decided to draft an entirely new frame of government. On September 17, 1787, thirty-eight delegates signed the new United States Constitution.

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The document was engrossed on parchment and, one by one, 56 representatives from all 13 colonies signed it.

​Declaration of Independence

Constitution

The First Ten Amendments: