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September 17, 1787. Philadelphia. Independence Hall. Thirty-nine delegates stepped forward and signed their names to a document that would become the foundation of the most enduring democracy in human history. Two hundred and thirty-nine years later — in the middle of America's 250th anniversary year — we still live under that document. What actually happened on September 17, 1787 The Constitutional Convention had been meeting since May. Delegates from 12 of the 13 states arg