It is widely believed that Thomas Jefferson contributed the original work. It also believed that his secretary was charged with the actual drafting of the final copy. Thomas Jeffersons contribution to the Constitution got him elected as the second President of our country. The above answer is wrong. Thomas Jefferson was not at the Constitutional Convention. He was the writer of the Declaration. He also was the 3rd president of the US, and because of several things happening all at once.
James Madison.
Thomas Jefferson, actually, wrote the entire constitution. John Adams wrote/rewrote the draft the Jefferson wrote, formally.
Pennsylvania had the most signers to the Constitution.
The people who wrote the constitution are known as the framers of the constitution. The framers were the political elite and over ninety-percent of them were wealthy lawyers. More than one person helped contribute to the writing of the constitution but the two primary ones were Gouverneur Morris and James Madison, whose diaries contained most of the ideas set into the constitution.
Pennsylvania had the most signers to the Constitution.
Madison
James Madison.
James Madison is the father of the US Constitution.
contributed most to the writing of the Constitution
James Madison is the father of the US Constitution.
There were (and continue to be) multiple practical effects of the writing of the Constitution. The most important of these practical effects was that the Constitution allowed the new country...
State Governments.
The most basic purpose at the time for writing the US Constitution was to replace the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution was also written to protect the rights of the people, and to simultaneously strengthen and limit the power of the federal government.
Thomas Jefferson, actually, wrote the entire constitution. John Adams wrote/rewrote the draft the Jefferson wrote, formally.
James Madison is considered the "Father of the Constitution."
Madison played such an important role in the writing of the US Constitution that he is still called the Father of the Constitution.
The constitution provided the united states a foundation for the most impotant set of laws. It explained how the US government should work and operate.