at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, then known as the Pennsylvania State House.

There the delegates amended the Articles of Confederation. Four questions proved far

more difficult to resolve: conflicts over how the people were to be represented in

Congress; what to do about slavery; the powers of the president and the procedures for

election to the office; and the powers and functions of the federal courts. The delegates

settled most of the scores of issues quickly. They then created a new Constitution, a plan

of government designed to solve the governmental problems caused under the Articles of

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