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The year is 1787. The Articles of Confederation are a failure as a design for government. Congress has no ability to raise or collect taxes. The Government cannot pay its debts or the soldiers who had fought in the Revolution. The individual States are fighting amongst themselves with the larger states abusing the smaller ones. Interstate trade and commerce are in chaos. | The year is 1787. The Articles of Confederation are a failure as a design for government. Congress has no ability to raise or collect taxes. The Government cannot pay its debts or the soldiers who had fought in the Revolution. The individual States are fighting amongst themselves with the larger states abusing the smaller ones. Interstate trade and commerce are in chaos. | ||
=====Meet the Framers of the Constitution===== | |||
[https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/founding-fathers by NATIONAL ARCHIVES] | |||
The original states, except Rhode Island, collectively appointed 70 individuals to the Constitutional Convention. A number of these individuals did not accept or could not attend, including Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. In all, 55 delegates attended the Constitutional Convention sessions, but only 39 actually signed the Constitution. The delegates ranged in age from Jonathan Dayton, aged 26, to Benjamin Franklin, aged 81, who was so infirmed that he had to be carried to sessions in a sedan chair. | |||
