signers

Presents brief biographies of the men who signed the Constitution and the nonsigning delegates and describes the membership of the Convention's committees.

Recalls the main events of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and recounts the lives of the leading framers of the great document.

Includes the stories of Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Nelson, Carter Braxton, Benjamin Harrison, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, George Clymer, James Wilson, John Morton, George Ross, George Taylor, James Smith, Richard Stockton, Francis Hopkins, John Witherspoon, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Thomas McKean, Caesar Rodney, George Read, William Ellery, Stephen Hopkins, Oliver Wolcott, Samuel Huntington, William Whipple, Matthew Thorton, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, William Hooper, John Penn, Joseph Hewes, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Lynch Jr., Thomas Heyward Jr., Arthur Middleton, Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett, George Walton, Lewis Morris, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, and William Floyd and their parts in creation of the Declaration of Independence.

Outlines the events leading up to the adoption of the Constitution and describes the lives of its signers.