Posted on 01/18/2017 2:06:05 AM PST by Jacquerie
Subtitle: The Road to Philadelphia.
Most narratives on the events leading to the federal convention in Philadelphia begin with the Mount Vernon meeting of 1785, in which delegates from Virginia and Maryland discussed various issues involving commerce along their common border, the Potomac River. Other narratives, like those from Article V opponents, start with the congressional call to convention in February 1787. Both neglect earlier attempts to correct the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation (AC). In previous posts to this series, we learned that congressionally proposed amendments to the still-to-be-ratified AC regarding nationwide taxation and regulation of commerce went back to 1781. By 1785, two states, Massachusetts and New York had recommended a convention of the states to address the chronic problems of non-government under the AC.
Virginia and Maryland, being pleased with the course of negotiations at Mount Vernon, suggested Pennsylvania and Delaware join them in Annapolis in September 1786 to discuss a wider range of commercial issues. Indicative of the distrust between southern agricultural and northern carrying states, Virginia actually considered if it would be better to grant preferences to British shipping over American shipping. Action was needed to keep the union.
Delegates from the five states in attendance at Annapolis adopted a report. It recommended all states gather in convention at Philadelphia in May 1787, “to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union.” Furthermore, it recommended the findings of the convention be forwarded to congress for subsequent approval and ratification by every state legislature.
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Instead, you are posting informative articles on American history, so they can’t get the enjoyment of whining.
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