The First Congress faced a unique challenge, and those congressmen and senators who gathered in New York in the spring of 1789 were awed by what lay ahead of them. Not only would members of the Congress have to pass some promised amendments to the new Constitution, but they would have to fill out the bare framework of a government that the Philadelphia Convention had created, including the organization of the executive and judicial departments. Some therefore saw the First Congress as something in the nature of a second constitutional convention.
Stark, John
Bennington, VT — An obelisk marks the site where military supplies were stored and commemorates the battle that took place two miles away in New York.
Bennington, VT — An obelisk marks the site where military supplies were stored and commemorates the battle that took place two miles away in New York.
New Castle, NH — Overlooking the Piscataqua River, Little Harbor, and the Atlantic Ocean, Fort Stark was named in honor of General John Stark, commander of New Hampshire forces at the Battle of Bennington (1777).
Medford, MA — Completed by Isaac Royall in 1739, the house is an expansion of an older brick house and is considered one of the finest 18th-century buildings in New England. The Slave Quarters is the only such structure in the northern U.S.
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)