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Do you know what the original purpose of the Philadelphia Convention was? And as much as we wish it had something to do with cream cheese, it doesn't. We know. It's a tough pill to swallow. Maybe swallowing it with cream cheese will make it better. We just really like cream cheese. Yum. 

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by the philadelphia convention A yearly gathering

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of cream cheese executives now So the cheese steak section

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of it it's really good All right what was the

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original purpose of the philadelphia convention of seventeen eighty seven

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and hear the potential answers articles federation constitution shay's rebellion

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french aggression All right a new government is sort of

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like a new car We've got all these nifty bells

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and whistles when we drive off the lot but after

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a few years we might need a checkup to ensure

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that everything's running the way we wanted teo when the

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delegates got together for the philadelphia convention of seventeen eighty

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seven was their primary intention be to draft a new

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constitution Will some of the men present particularly james madison

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Alexander hamilton arrived in philadelphia with dreams of going back

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to the drawing board but that wasn't the convention's original

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plan So we can raise be from our list was

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the convention's primary purpose c to raise troops to suppress

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shay's rebellion will shay's rebellion was a big tizzy in

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western massachusetts where farmers had grown frustrated with the heavy

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taxation following the war though the uprising certainly led people

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to call for the convention in the first place shays

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and his followers had already been dealt with by the

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time the delegates arrived in philadelphia Now could the convention

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have been formed to de organize a military response to

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french aggression Well around the time of the convention france

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was embarking on a violent revolution of its own And

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you hear people say you remember that But while many

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american political thinkers sympathized with their frenchy friends the u

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s wouldn't have needed to organize a military response In

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this case john fell John had us pretty well covered

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What about e to resolve a deadlocked election for the

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national executive Well imagine a us without a president That

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was the system under the articles of confederation So in

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this case the authors of the o c had already

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elected not to elect brilliant which means the original purpose

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of the seventeen eighty seven philadelphia convention was a to

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amend the articles of confederation The delegates originally got together

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with the plan of improving on the articles even though

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they eventually decided to throw the whole thing out and

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start from scratch So a is the correct answer After

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writing the constitution delegates had to convince the rest of

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the country to follow suit holding a series of state

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conventions and publicity campaigns Tto win the population Over Eventually

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all the states ratified the new document which definitely constituted

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a success But um

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