Chapter 7 Images

• James Madison, "father of the Constitution," a miniature portrait by Charles Willson Peale (1783)
  
  
  James Madison, "father of the Constitution," a miniature portrait by Charles Willson Peale (1783)

  Madison was only thirty-six when the Constitutional Convention met.

  Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

• The Philadelphia State House (now called Independence Hall)s
  
  
  The Philadelphia State House (now called Independence Hall), where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 and the Constitutional Convention took place in 1787.

  Credit: Library of Congress Rare Book & Special Collections Division

• An engraving and poem, published in 1788 in an American newspaper
  
  
  An engraving and poem, published in 1788 in an American newspaper, after New York became the eleventh state to ratify the new Constitution.

  Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division