This Day in History: August 26

Constitutionalists Demand Action
August 26, 1778
The Berkshire Constitutionalists continued to agitate for a true constitutional convention, and kept their courts closed “rather than to have Law dealt out…without any Foundation to support it, for…we should before this time have had a Bill of rights, and a Constitution.” On August 26, the eighteen towns that met in Pittsfield threatened to join with another state if a special constitutional convention were not called. [More]