From: “The Rise of the American Republics”
By: Dr. Philip Morris
University of Albany Press
Albany, New York Federal States of America
1999©
…George Washington’s death after an unlucky fall from his horse was major blow to the young American State. The nation went into official mourning for over a month. The only person that had truly unified the country was gone. It is coincidently that the time of his death coincided with the last attempt by the United States “government” to revise its government.
A constitutional convention planned to be held in Philadelphia was delayed in memory of George Washington’s death, and also so a new head of the convention could be chosen. In the end a compromise was made and a joint leadership of two prominent leader, elderly Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina.
The conventions stated job had been to edit the Articles of Confederation the document that had governed the nation for years. One thing that was quickly and universally agreed on was that the document had to be thrown out.
The convention began very badly. Pinckney almost banned Alexander Hamilton, a prominet delegent from New York, from the convention for disrespect to the office of co-president. Yelling matches between the two went on for days. When a plan finally was proposed by James Madison on May 29, 1787, called the Virginia plan, the congress was already hot-tempered and disorderly. The plan that Madison proposed was by no means radical. It only proposed an elected bicameral legislature based on population and a weak executive. It was not accepted on any level by the delegation and was understood to be just a possible, but the representative’s from Delaware, New Jersey, and Connecticut, afraid of losing influence through the Virginia plan, threatened to leave if it wasn’t barred from the convention, and a gag placed on it….
From: “A History of the American Republic 1775-1788”
By: Dr. James Breckenridge
Virginia Publishing
Richmond, Virginia American Commonwealth
2002 ©
… Benjamin Franklin was willing to negate with both the delegates and Madison, but Pinckney intervened on the behalf of Madison. Hamilton joined the debate claiming no state had the right to leave the Congress. After three days of debate Madison withdraw his proposal, but it was not enough. Hamilton proposed that the delegation be dissolved or at least replace the two co–presidents with one. Pinckney said it be most be taken to a floor vote, which ended in deadlock. Delaware, followed by New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, one of New York’s delegates (Hamilton), and two of Massachusetts four delegates walked out. The Congress tried to carry on for a full week longer before it dissolved itself at Madison’s suggestion…
By: Dr. Philip Morris
University of Albany Press
Albany, New York Federal States of America
1999©
…George Washington’s death after an unlucky fall from his horse was major blow to the young American State. The nation went into official mourning for over a month. The only person that had truly unified the country was gone. It is coincidently that the time of his death coincided with the last attempt by the United States “government” to revise its government.
A constitutional convention planned to be held in Philadelphia was delayed in memory of George Washington’s death, and also so a new head of the convention could be chosen. In the end a compromise was made and a joint leadership of two prominent leader, elderly Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina.
The conventions stated job had been to edit the Articles of Confederation the document that had governed the nation for years. One thing that was quickly and universally agreed on was that the document had to be thrown out.
The convention began very badly. Pinckney almost banned Alexander Hamilton, a prominet delegent from New York, from the convention for disrespect to the office of co-president. Yelling matches between the two went on for days. When a plan finally was proposed by James Madison on May 29, 1787, called the Virginia plan, the congress was already hot-tempered and disorderly. The plan that Madison proposed was by no means radical. It only proposed an elected bicameral legislature based on population and a weak executive. It was not accepted on any level by the delegation and was understood to be just a possible, but the representative’s from Delaware, New Jersey, and Connecticut, afraid of losing influence through the Virginia plan, threatened to leave if it wasn’t barred from the convention, and a gag placed on it….
From: “A History of the American Republic 1775-1788”
By: Dr. James Breckenridge
Virginia Publishing
Richmond, Virginia American Commonwealth
2002 ©
… Benjamin Franklin was willing to negate with both the delegates and Madison, but Pinckney intervened on the behalf of Madison. Hamilton joined the debate claiming no state had the right to leave the Congress. After three days of debate Madison withdraw his proposal, but it was not enough. Hamilton proposed that the delegation be dissolved or at least replace the two co–presidents with one. Pinckney said it be most be taken to a floor vote, which ended in deadlock. Delaware, followed by New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, one of New York’s delegates (Hamilton), and two of Massachusetts four delegates walked out. The Congress tried to carry on for a full week longer before it dissolved itself at Madison’s suggestion…