... 20)". So in 1787 a Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia in what is now called Independence Hall. State legislators chose seventy-four delegates to go to the convention. They came from every state except Rhode Island (Welch 29). The delegates came to the convention to re-write the articles because everyone was complaining that the government was too weak. The delegates ended up writing a new constitution instead of revising the old one. Several of the delegates were well known and ... , but also a new idea was about to be brought into the world; the idea that the people coul...

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... kept trying to separate America from France during the peace negotiations. hoping America would agree to conditions that would not include concessions to France. After Jay and Adams joined Franklin, they did agree to meet without France and reached a settlement within a month. The final treaty was signed on September 3, 1783.23 Franklin was 81 at the constitutional convention in 1787.24 He was the chairman for the proposal that was known as the great compromise ... a single chambered legislature, and an executive board and opposed the payment of salaries to executive officials. The fina...

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