In an historically astounding accomplishment what the United States is all about was hammered together in barely four months at a Federal Convention in Philadelphia Exceptional men, often in angry debate, tediously revisited issues and compromised to create the United States Constitution, the political legal foundation for the United States in which the people are the final authority. Thirty nine of them, George Washington presiding, and guided by the political genius of James Madison, Jr., signed it on September Seventeenth. That day, by Congressional law, is Constitution Day. This book is a compact review of the Federal Convention and its most influential delegates. And Ratifying the Constitution in state conventions. Intellectual influences on Philadelphia Convention delegates. Religion in the Constitution Slavery in the Constitution. Constitution Basics. It is designed to assist American citizens to better understand the unique gift of freedom and opportunity the Constitution gives them. And the responsibility they have as voters to be informed and make the United States the best it can be.