The famous Federal Convention met at Philadelphia in May, 1787, and The Federal Convention at Philadelphia, May-Sept., 1787. remained in session four months, with Washington presiding. Its work was the framing of the government under which we are now living, and in which the evils of the old confederation have been avoided. The trouble had all the while been how to get the whole American people represented in some body that could thus rightfully tax the whole American people. This was the
The War of Independence
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John Fiske
