Events from the year 1787 in the United States. The United States Constitution was written and the ratification process began. President: Arthur St. Clair...

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...

The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. Although the convention was intended to revise the league of...

The United States Constitution was first printed by Dunlap & Claypoole in 1787, during the Constitutional Convention. From the original printing, 13 original...

independence from the British Empire, and after victory in the Revolutionary War combined to form the United States of America. The American Revolution...

in the United States, 1775–1787. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1167-2. "Common Core Document of the United States of...

The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's...

Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress...

related to 1787. 1787 (MDCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar...

1787 to 1790, each of the states also ratified a new federal frame of government in the Constitution of the United States. In relation to the states,...