Only delegates from Pennsylvania and Virginia were present at the Constitutional Convention which opened on May 14, 1787. At the Pennsylvania State House, now called Independence Hall, seventy delegates were appointed to the Constitutional Convention, but out of them seventy only fifty-five delegates attended. Thirty-nine delegates signed the Constitution. George Mason, Edmund Randolph, and Elbridge Gerry were three delegates who did not sign the Constitution because the Bill of Rights were not placed in it. As it is noted in 1787, at the end of the Constitutional Convention, a delegate from Virginia by the name of George Mason wanted to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. He believed it would benefit the people, he disputed. Mason’s
