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25 April, 09:18

Why is is said that the delegates to the Philadelphia convention ignored their instructions?

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  1. 25 April, 09:44
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    The report claims that, "48 of the 55 delegates [to the Philadelphia Convention] had instructions which allowed them to go beyond amending the Articles of Confederation." To assert, then, that the Constitutional Convention was not "runaway" with regard to those 48 delegates is arguably true. However, what of the seven delegates whose commissions expressly forbade them from ratifying.
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