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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  For four months the delegates debated fundamental questions relating to government, power, and human nature. Each and every clause of the Constitution was painstakingly argued and resolved. The voting record reflects the countless diplomacies, concessions, and comprises that produced the Constitution. This page records the final vote taken September 15, 1787. Delegates to the Convention signed the proposed Constitution on September 17, 1787. William Jackson, who served as Secretary of the Convention, recorded the votes. Throughout the entire voting record, the column for Rhode Island is blank or blacked out, since that state chose not to participate in the Convention. The column for New York is blank only for the later stages of the Convention, as two of the three delegates from that state departed early.The voting record of the convention is in two bound volumes.</li>
<li><b>General notes:</b>  Exhibit History: The exhibit history that follows is a composite for both volumes. "American Originals," December 1997 - December 1998, National Archives Rotunda, Exhibit no. 624.0192. "This Fierce Spirit of Liberty," June 1989 - December 1991, National Archives Rotunda, Washington, DC. "Washington Salutes Washington," February 1989 - August 1989, Museum of Science and History, Seattle, WA, Exhibit No. 1069.0002. "Creating the Constitution," October 1986 - March 1989, Exhibit No. 547.xxxx "The American Solution." May 1987 - September 1987, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Exhibit No. 1032.0001. "Formation of the Union," National Archives Rotunda, January 1983 - September 1986.</li></ul></div>
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