On This Day
1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the ‘United States’.
Ellsworth participated in the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia as a delegate from Connecticut along with Roger Sherman and William Samuel Johnson. More than half of the 55 delegates were lawyers, eight of whom, including both Ellsworth and Sherman, had previous experience as judges conversant with legal discourse.
Ellsworth took an active part in the proceedings beginning on June 20, when he proposed the use of “the United States” to identify the government under the authority of the Constitution. The words “United States” had already been used in the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation as well as Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis. It was Ellsworth’s proposal to retain the earlier wording to sustain the emphasis on a federation rather than a single national entity. Three weeks earlier, on May 30, 1787, Edmund Randolph of Virginia had moved to create a “national government” consisting of a supreme legislative, an executive, and a judiciary. Ellsworth accepted Randolph’s notion of a threefold division but moved to strike the phrase “national government.” Since then, the “United States” has been the official title used in the Convention to designate the government. The complete name, “the United States of America,” had already been featured by Paine, and its inclusion in the Constitution was the work of Gouverneur Morris when he made the final editorial changes in the Constitution.
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Born On This Day
1761 – Jacob Hübner, German entomologist and author (d. 1826)
Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology.
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