The Philadelphia Convention: A Play for Many Readers

Fifty-five men assembled in Philadelphia that summer: Men from 12 different states, men with different passions and views, some from the North, and some from the South. They disagreed on much. But they also agreed on some key points, eventually concurring (for the most part) that a new form of government was necessary, and that they had been assembled there to create it. Some wanted to see a "Federal" Government kept in place -- keeping most power with the States where it belonged; others w...