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The first Constitutional Convention was held in Sydney in March 1891 to consider a draft Constitution for the proposed federation of the British colonies in Australia and New Zealand. There were 46 delegates at the Convention, chosen by the seven colonial parliaments. Among the delegates was Sir Henry Parkes, known as the "Father of Federation." The Convention approved a draft largely written by Sir Samuel Griffith, but the colonial parliaments failed to act to ratify it.
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One of the most insightful of the Antifederalists was Robert Yates, a New York judge who, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, withdrew because the convention was exceeding its instructions. Yates wrote as Brutus in the debates over the Constitution. Given his experience as a judge, his claim that the Supreme Court would become a source of almost unlimited federal over-reaching was particularly insightful.
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After five weeks of debate over the committee of detail's draft Constitution, the Constitutional Convention appointed a committee of style to prepare a final version; Gouverneur Morris, later known as the "penman of the Constitution," did most of the work. On September 17, 1787, after several days of further revision, the Constitutional Convention voted in favor of the Constitution. The states were left to accept or reject this new plan of government. Delegate James Madison, one of the Constitution's most fervent advocates, felt that the success or failure of the American Constitution "would decide forever the fate of republican government."
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The Constitutional Convention created the most influential document in the history of the western world, the Constitution of the United States of America. The convention met from May to September of 1787 with the objective of amending the Articles of Confederation, which had caused severe economic troubles and extraordinary inflation. The poor economic conditions gave rise to the Shays Rebellion, a movement in which Daniel Shays led a group of bankrupt farmers in an attack on local government. Politicians and aristocrats felt that the rebellion was a large step in the direction of anarchy and demanded an immediate revision of the Articles.
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The Constitutional Convention was held between May and September of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss problems with the Articles of Confederation. Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, George Mason, and a others, a total of fifty five elite statesmen, attended the conference. Absent were John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Patrick Henry.
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In 1787, John Rutledge, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Pierce Butler went to Philadelphia where the Constitutional Convention was being held and constructed what served as a detailed outline for the U.S. Constitution. The federal, and Federalist-leaning, Constitution was ratified by the state in 1787, and the new state constitution was ratified in 1790 without the support of the Upcountry.
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