They met in Philadelphia because they wanted to revise the weakened Articles of Confederation. Instead they ended up re-writing the Constitution.
The US Constitutional Convention was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The year was 1787.
1787
The colonists met to write the original Constitution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Constitutional Convention convened on May 25, 1787, and concluded on September 17, 1787. Delegates from twelve of the thirteen states gathered to address the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and ultimately drafted the new Constitution.
In May of 1787, the Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia. They met there to write a new Constitution in the Pennsylvania State House, the same building where the Declaration of Independence had been signed eleven years earlier. The building is now known as Independence Hall.
It satisfied them both by solving there problems between the larger states wanting the representatives to be determined by population and the smaller states wanting it to be determined on equality/ equal amount of representatives on each side. Then they came up with the house of representatives and the senate. This solved a lot of the peoples problems.
Philadelphia in 1787
Philadelphia
met in the summer of 1787 in philadelphia
The room in Independence Hall (formerly the State House) in Philadelphia. where debates over the proposed Constitution took place (photo by Doug Linder) On May 25, 1787, a week later than scheduled, delegates from the various states met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.
Executive branch
The constitution of the United states was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was signed in Virginia by 52 people. The founding fathers signed the Constitution in Philadelphia. It was signed in the white house
The US Constitutional Convention was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The year was 1787.
May 25, 1787.
1787
To fix The Articles of Confederation
May 25th, 1787
The United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives meet in the Capitol Building.