Those were halcyon days!  The nation was new, but was in danger of falling apart.  President Washington was calling for a drastic revision of the government.  It was against that backdrop that Alexander Hamilton organized the Constitutional Convention to be held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787.

 Hamilton knew that something had to be done to keep the states from drifting apart.  The first idea was to revise the Articles of Confederation, but it soon became apparent that an entirely new document was needed.  Two of the most important Founding Fathers were out of the country.  Two others were so unhappy about the whole idea of a national constitution that they refused to participate.  Even at the end, some states were unhappy because there was no explicit listing of the people’s rights.

Even with all these distractions, it came together and Hamilton worked to get it ratified. He and John Jay published The Federalist– 85 essays in support of creating a central government. Later the “Anti-Federalists” got what they wanted: ten amendments to preserve the most fundamental rights of the people – and to limit the powers of the central government.

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My first computer was a machine called a Tandy 1000. I purchased it at a store called The Radio Shack. By today’s standards it was a Stone Age …

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