common meter, common measure - the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad metrical foot, metrical unit, foot - (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm 4.
George Washington was elected as president of the constitution convention. He was nominated for the position by Robert Morris of Pennsylvania. George Washington was elected â¦ President of the Constitutional  Convention. He would go on to serve as the country's 1st President.
The states decided who they would send to the Constitutional Convention as delegates. Several prominent figures did not attend. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were among those who were not in attendance. Henry, who once said, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' now said, 'I smell a rat.'.