constitutional convention
In May of 1787 the Constitutional Convention met at the Philadelphia State House. ... ” “The 55 delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention were a distinguished body of men who represented a cross section of 18th-century American leadership. ... He came to the convention with a detailed plan, which later became known as the Virginia Plan. ... An argument that was held to prevent this from happening was that the congress had called this convention “for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation and had no authority to do more than that. ... The convention agreed to create a “grand committee”, with one delegate from each state. ... On July 1787 the convention voted to accept this proposal. Over the next few weeks the convention made an agreement to another important issue pertaining to slavery. ... So to settle this issue the convention then agreed that the new legislature would not be allowed to tax exports, they would also be forbidden to impose a duty of more than ten dollars a head on imported slaves and would not be permitted to stop slave trade for twenty years. In conclusion there were many people that contributed to the Constitutional Convention, but one stood out among all the others.