Constitutional Convention (may 27, 1787 – sep 17, 1787)
Description:
-questions about money dominated post-war-George Washington, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams: Congress controls foreign and interstate commerce and tariff policy
-Southerners: nationalists because state government cut taxes and wouldn't redeem war bonds
-nationalist congressmen secured resolution for the revision of the articles of confederation
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Date:
may 27, 1787
sep 17, 1787
~ 3 months and 23 days