Constitution Stats
2/3 Approval needed by House and Senate to support an amendment¾ States that need to approve an amendment for it to be found constitutional
1 Days of the year that the entire constitution is on display (September 17th)
1 Amendments that have been repealed (The 18th amendment—Prohibition)
2 Constitutions that the U.S has had since 1776 - the Articles of Confederation in and our present one
3 Months that James Madison (Father of the Constitution) arrived early in Philadelphia
3 Principles protected by constitution—Liberty, Equality and Justice
5 Tons of weight of vault doors that protect the Constitution
7 Articles in the Constitution
10 Amendments in the Bill of Rights
12 States that were represented at the Convention (Rhode Island did not send a delegate)
24 Delegates who were lawyers or who had studied law
26 Age of the youngest delegate to sign the Constitution (Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey)
27 Amendments to the Constitution
$30 Fee paid to Jacob Shallus who penned the constitution by hand
39 Delegates who signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787
44 Average age of the delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention
55 Number of delegates who were present at the Convention
61 Years—longest elapsed time between added amendments to the Constitution (the 12th and 13th Amendments)
81 Age of the oldest person to sign the Constitution
100 Days—approximate amount of days spent working at the Constitutional Convention
500 Proposed amendments to change the Electoral College
4,543 Words hand written by Jacob Shallus (Constitution was worded by Gouverneur Morris of New Jersey)
9,000+ Amendments that have been proposed since 1787
$30,000 Amount of money President Jackson secured from Congress for Madison’s journal detailing the events of the Constitutional Convention.
40,000 Population of Philadelphia at time of signing
4 million U.S. population when Constitution was signed