1787 CE–1788 CE
United States Constitution and federalism
Law & constitutions · Federalismo, poderes y representación
The Philadelphia Convention drafted a federal constitution with enumerated powers, separated institutions, and representation of states and population; it took effect through ratification. The settlement preserved compromises over slavery and left rights protection contested and subject to amendment.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- End
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: duration of a process.
Sources
- www.archives.gov (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2015-11-04
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2021-10-07
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
The correspondence between this reference and individual claims has not yet been itemized.
This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.