Attributed motion to name the government the United States
- When
- 1787 (motion date legacy-only, unverified)
- Where
- Federal Convention, Philadelphia
A legacy record attributes to Connecticut delegate Oliver Ellsworth a June 20, 1787 motion at the Philadelphia Federal Convention that the government be called the United States.
Oliver Ellsworth, a delegate from Connecticut serving alongside Roger Sherman and William Samuel Johnson, participated in the Convention's deliberations in Philadelphia, which sat from May 25 to September 17, 1787. A legacy record credits him with a June 20, 1787 motion that the government be called the United States. No supplied passage documents this motion, its date, or its verbatim text, so the claim rests solely on the legacy record and cannot be confirmed from the available sources.
Sources
- Oliver Ellsworth Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-13
- Constitutional Convention (United States) Wikipedia
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