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It traces disputes that led to the 1786 Annapolis conference, the call for states to send delegates, and the Federal Convention in May 1787 with prominent figures such as George Washington, James Madison, and others. It explains why delegates created a stronger national government, how powers were divided between states and a central authority, and which federal powers were broadly accepted, including regulating commerce and declaring war.","Name:   Date:   Class:    \nConstitutional Convention  \nBy the time the Northwest Ordinance was enacted, American leaders were in the midst of drafting a new and stronger constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation. Their presiding officer, George Washington, had written accurately that the states were united only by a \"rope of sand.\" Disputes between Maryland and Virginia over navigation on the Potomac River led to a conference of representatives of five states at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1786. One of the delegates, Alexander Hamilton of New York, convinced his colleagues that commerce was bound up with large political and economic questions. What was required was a fundamental rethinking of the Confederation.  \nThe Annapolis conference issued a call for all the states to appoint representatives to a convention tobe held the following spring in Philadelphia. The Continental Congress was at first indignant over this bold step, but it acquiesced after Washington gave the project his backing and was elected a delegate. During the next fall and winter, elections were held in all states but Rhode Island.  \nA remarkable gathering of notables assembled at the Federal Convention in May 1787. The state legislatures sent leaders with experience in colonial and state governments, in Congress, on the bench, and in the army. Washington, regarded as the country's first citizen because of his integrity and his military leadership during the Revolution, was chosen as presiding officer.  \nProminent among the more active members were two Pennsylvanians: Gouverneur Morris, who clearly saw the need for national government, and James Wilson, who labored indefatigably for the national idea. Also elected by Pennsylvania was Benjamin Franklin, nearing the end of an extraordinary career of public service and scientific achievement.  \nFrom Virginia came James Madison, a practical young statesman, a thorough student of politics and history, and, according to a colleague, \"from a spirit of industry and application ... the best-informed man on any point in debate.\" He would be recognized as the \"Father of the Constitution.\"  \nMassachusetts sent Rufus King and Elbridge Gerry, young men of ability and experience. Roger Sherman, shoemaker turned judge, was one of the representatives from Connecticut. From New York came Alexander Hamilton, who had proposed the meeting. Absent from the Convention were Thomas Jefferson, who was serving as minister representing the United States in France, and John Adams, serving in the same capacity in Great Britain. Youth predominated among the 55 delegates–the average age was 42.  \nCongress had authorized the Convention merely to draft amendments to the Articles of Confederation but, as Madison later wrote, the delegates, \"with a manly confidence in their country,\" simply threw the Articles aside and went ahead with the building of a wholly new form of government.  \nThey recognized that the paramount need was to reconcile two different powers – the power of local control, which was already being exercised by the 13 semiindependent states, and the power of a central government. They adopted the principle that the functions and powers of the national government – being new, general, and inclusive – had to be carefully defined and stated, while all other functions and powers were to be understood as belonging to the states. But realizing that the central government had to have real power, the delegates also generally accepted the fact that the government should be authorized, among other things, to coin money, to regulate commerce, to declare war, and to make peace.  \nText courtesy of the U.S. State Department, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2005  \n© Sttudenudent Handouts, Inc . www.studenthandouts.com  \nName:   Date:   Class:    \nDirections: Read the passage, then answer the questions below.  \n1. Who wrote that, under the Articles of Confederation, the states were united only by a “rope of sand”?  \n2. 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