Because he was President of the Constitutional Convention (1787).
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams are two founding fathers who were overseas working as diplomats at the time of the Constitutional Conventions, so they did not sign it. Also, Samuel Adams (another generally important Adams), Patrick Henry ("Give me liberty or give me death"), and Thomas Paine (who wrote "Common Sense") didn't sign it because they had problems with the Constitution as it was when it was being signed.
He didn't sign The Constitution because he thought it gave the federal government too much power AND because he opposed slavery.
As President of the Constitutional Convention, George Washington was the first signer of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787. Washington was NOT a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Yes, George Washington was the first to sign the U.S Constitution!
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Yes, George Washington was the first to sign the U.S Constitution!
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1787 and it was the ratification of the Constitution not the Constitution itself.
The first person to sign the U.S. Constitution was George Washington. He was born on February 22, 1732. Washington's signature was the first on the document, which was signed on September 17, 1787, during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
Yes he did
The US Constitutional Conventional was in session from May 25 to September 17, 1787. Washington was the President of the Convention and first to sign the new Constitution.
No. He ratified it on Sept. 17, 1787.
You need to brush up on your U.S. history. Hell, I'm Australian and I know this! George Washington NEEDED to sign the constitution. So, he did.