... been a reason for merchants supporting the ratification as it is directly involved with economics and their prosperity. The final economic force that spurred a movement for a new constitution involved the need for unified capital. The problem with money was that each state could print their own. This caused problems ... and John Lansing from New York who actually left the Constitutional Convention before its end. He also names John Francis Mercer who, "joined with Luther Martin [another delegate] in violent opposition to the adaptation of the Constitution." Other people who were against...

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