What were the delegates who wrote the constitution political party stance?

Answer 1

Which Constitution? The Country has had two. The Articles of Confederation, written in 1777 were too weak a document so the second Congress came up with a new document. The US Constitution was written in 1787 after the Second Continental Congress called for a convention in Philadelphia to modify the Articles of Confederation, the document that served as the foundation for the United States' first national government.

So, in the first instance, they were acting as representatives of the 13 colonies. So they were not there to represent the stance of a specific party, so answering this question is not easily answerable. Parties as we know them were not legally chartered as legal institutions. If there had been, they would have been done at a local, but not national level.

Ten years after the Declaration of Independence this is still the case. On May 25, 1787, fifty-five delegates from twelve of the thirteen states (Rhode Island boycotted the convention) converged on Philadelphia intent on solving problems that arose from weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation. The written authorization was "to devise such further provisions as shall appear to [the delegates] necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."

Some of the issues they needed to address was the lack of Executive and Judicial Branches (no federal court system), a means of providing fair representation for states of unequal population, a way of mediating disputes between the states, provision for taxing power or other means of raising revenue, and related issues.

The first order of business was to elect George Washington to serve as President of the Convention, and to establish rules of procedure. During the course of debate, it soon became clear that the Articles of Confederation, written only a decade earlier in 1777, was unsalvageable as a framework for the envisioned Republic, so the delegates decided to write a new Constitution.

Some delegates were outraged by the idea and left the convention early. Those who remained gradually worked out a system of plans and compromises that they believed would create a strong central government without depriving the states of all sovereign authority.

On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine of the fifty-five delegates signed the Constitution and agreed to promote its ratification to their state legislatures.

As required under Article VII, the ninth state ratified the Constitution on June 21, 1788, and the new federal government became operational on March 4,

1789.

This calls into question if the function of a Notary even existed, as there were no Public Books of Record.

I think your question becomes more interesting later on. The first President elected who was not a Federalist, was Thomas Jefferson.

Here is an excerpt from his Jefferson's short bio on the Monticello website.

After Jefferson left Congress in 1776, he returned to Virginia and served in the legislature. Elected governor from 1779 to 1781, he suffered an inquiry into his conduct during his last year in office that, although finally fully repudiated, left him with a life-long pricklishness in the face of criticism.

During the brief private interval in his life following his governorship, Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia. In 1784, he entered public service again, in France, first as trade commissioner and then as Benjamin Franklin's successor as minister. During this period, he avidly studied European culture, sending home to Monticello, books, seeds and plants, statues and architectural drawings, scientific instruments, and information.

In 1790 he accepted the post of secretary of state under his friend George Washington. His tenure was marked by his opposition to the pro-British policies of Alexander Hamilton. In 1796, as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Republicans, he became vice-president after losing to John Adams by three electoral votes.

Four years later, he defeated Adams and became president, the first peaceful transfer of authority from one party to another in the history of the young nation.