English Collins Dictionary-English synonyms & Thesaurus. See also: local authority, unitary authority, Advertising Standards Authority, Atomic Energy Authority. dominant. dominant. adj.
James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution. In May, 1787 the 55 Delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention set off to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Traveling in the late 18th century wasn't easy, and what would take modern Americans just hours took the Founding Fathers weeks.
Signs the Constitution for Pennsylvania. (January 31, 1752  November 6, 1816). Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its signers.