the first one would go ahead and send george washington and edmund pendleton and patrick hindery the first continental congress where the speaker would be elected as the first president of the continental congress. they would meet as conventions of the people of virginia. the second met in richmond but it would be the fifth virginia convention meeting on this spot on may 15, 1776, they would adopt the virginia resolution for independence. that resolution stated the people of virginia were separate and independent of the crown and parliament of great britain. having dissolved the ties to the old government, they went on to say there must be a new constitution, the first written american constitution written after independence and that if the purpose of government was to ensure rights and liberties they determined they would have to come up with a declaration of rights. that would be the first american bill of rights. that was worked on mainly in committee. i would like to take you upstairs and show you the committee rooms where they would work on the virginia declaration of rights. he