September,17,1787
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The Constitutional Convention adopted the Constitution in May 1787. The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787.
The constitutional convention was convened and the following states voted for radification: Deleware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
The convention of 1787 had no official name when it was called by Congress in its February 1787 resolution. It merely set a date and place for the convention. Indeed references to the convention afterward were equally vague in title. Not until 1835 when Congress authorized the publishing of the official record of the convention taken by the designated secretary of the convention, was an official title given to the convention. The official title given the convention by act of Congress was the "1787 Federal Convention."
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