The signers of the Constitution marked the fulfillment of better than 10 years of work to refine and perfect that fabulous document. Thirty nine delegates of the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that began the greatest experiment of Liberty.
The list of signers of the Constitution follows:
George Washington
George Read
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jacob Broom
James McHenry
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Daniel Carroll
John Blair
James Madison, Jr.
William Blount
Richard Dobbs Spaight
Hugh Williamson
John Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
Pierce Butler
William Few
Abraham Baldwin
John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
William Samuel Johnson
Roger Sherman
Alexander Hamilton
William Livingston
David Brearley
William Paterson
Jonathan Dayton
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Mifflin
Robert Morris
George Clymer
Thomas FitzSimons
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson
Gouverneur Morris
As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the building where, after As Benjamin Franklin was exiting the building, after years of hard work, the Constitution had been perfected and signed, a lady asked him what kind of government did the document create. An old, tired, and very wise Benjamin Franklin replied; “A Republic, ma’am. IF YOU CAN KEEP IT!”
Can we keep it? We haven’t done a good job so far. Lest we forget, the checks and balances are to protect the inalienable rights, freedoms of the individual, from all enemies foreign and domestic. (including the government if it ignores the Constitution.)
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
