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OCC: The PoD in this TL takes place during the Philadelphia Convention. This is my first real attempt at a non-ASB TL so please don't be to harsh but critisize it so that I may get better.


This house that could not stand
 
 
“Those who took it upon themselves to rectify the inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation should have known that they were doomed to failure. One can not create a vastly powerful central authority with out guaranteeing the people the rights that are born to them. It was a fantasy to believe otherwise of this I am a firm believer.”
George Manson on the failure of the Philadelphia Convention. 1787
 
If I could have voted aye rather than nay I would have, but morally I was incapable of such a thing. A government in which states such as Rhode Island have equal representation as Georgia or Virginia is in itself wrong and can not be just.”
Abraham Williams 1787
 

September 18th, 1787 [1]
George Washington walked out of the rather ill smelling Philadelphia building a saddened and slightly bitter man. The Convention had failed and the Articles of Confederation would remain intact. It was a blow to a man who had wished to bring his country together. He would return to his home and to his wife. As he climbed into the carriage that would take him to a hotel where he would stay until morning he turned back and with a slight tear in his eye uttered a statement that would go down in history. “I shall not cry over the petty acts of man but I shall shed a tear for this house that could not stand, and for the America we shall never be.”

[1] the Convention ended one day later than OTL
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