This is Constitution Week and the City of Ottawa officially commemorate the anniversary of the creation of the world’s longest lived written constitution. Kerry Eyerly from the General Edward Hand Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution accepted the proclamation:
Fifty-five delegates attended the Constitutional Convention, but only 39 signed it. The oldest signer of the constitution was Benjamin Franklin, who was 81. The youngest was Jonathan Dayton at 26 years old.
