helped emphasize the need for remedial action. One was the Annapolis Convention, called originally to resolve navigational disputes between Maryland and Virginia. Five states gathered at that meeting, and the opportunity to achieve broader gains struck several of the delegates, especially James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.
The Annapolis petition to Congress led to calling a Federal Convention for Philadelphia in May of the following year. At first, the goal of the gathering was merely to revise the Articles of Confederation, but the Convention took on a life of its own, and the Federal Co
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