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Flag Burning 1989

The Federal Convention convened in the State House in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation. The members adjourned from day to day until the required number of members (being seven states) were present on May 25, 1787. Through discussion and debate it became clear by mid-June that, rather than amend the existing Articles, the Convention would draft an entirely new frame of government. All through the summer, in closed sessions, the delegates debated, and redrafted the articles of the new Constitution. Among the chief points at issue were how much power to allow the central government, how many representatives in Congress to allow each state, and how these representatives should be elected--directly by the people or by the state legislators. The work of many minds, the Constitution stands as a model of cooperative statesmanship and the art of compromise. During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the......


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