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(Click white arrow to play) 1789,: Philadelphia, Independence Hall. The Founders meet again. This time in secret. Only five years after the war of independence, court houses were being burned in Virginia. In Massachusetts, Daniel Shays led a debtors rebellion. The government under the Articles of Confedereation and Perpetual Union had degenerated to a union in chaos! Most Founders realized that stronger central power was now in order. But how could they enact it and stay true to the principals of liberty? Listen now to find out!
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Join renouned Constitutional scholar, Edwin Vieira, for a ring-side seat at the convention. Listen as Federalists like Alexander Hamilton battle it out against liberty-minded Anti-Federalists, like Patrick Henry (who remarked, "I smell a rat," when he heard about the secret proceedings). For those Anti-Federalists to accept the Constitution, an additional firewall had to be established to contain those awesome new powers. Find out how the Bill of Rights is thus its own separate document, with its own separate preamble, as a further guarantee that the new government would stay true the spirit of '76.
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