Except these are the same 13 states that literally
just won a war against the imperial power of the age through a unified effort, and live in a dangerous world where
all the European imperial powers are actively seeking to expand their hold, if not their reach, in the Western Hemisphere.
Randolph et al had a point of view on large states vs small ones, and on counting the enslaved at some proportion for representation, but they were not suicidal.
Even South Carolina was not
quite to the "too small for a republic, too large for an asylum" stage.
The prospect of hanging has a tremendous effect on concentrating one's attention, of something like that...
Best, and Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow USians...