ShmoopTube

00:00

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

00:05

Brought to you by the philadelphia convention A yearly gathering

00:08

of cream cheese executives now So the cheese steak section

00:12

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

00:14

original purpose of the philadelphia convention of seventeen eighty seven

00:18

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

00:23

french aggression All right a new government is sort of

00:27

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

00:30

and whistles when we drive off the lot but after

00:32

a few years we might need a checkup to ensure

00:34

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

00:37

delegates got together for the philadelphia convention of seventeen eighty

00:40

seven was their primary intention be to draft a new

00:44

constitution Will some of the men present particularly james madison

00:48

Alexander hamilton arrived in philadelphia with dreams of going back

00:51

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

00:55

plan So we can raise be from our list was

00:58

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

01:02

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

01:05

western massachusetts where farmers had grown frustrated with the heavy

01:09

taxation following the war though the uprising certainly led people

01:13

to call for the convention in the first place shays

01:16

and his followers had already been dealt with by the

01:19

time the delegates arrived in philadelphia Now could the convention

01:22

have been formed to de organize a military response to

01:26

french aggression Well around the time of the convention france

01:29

was embarking on a violent revolution of its own And

01:32

you hear people say you remember that But while many

01:36

american political thinkers sympathized with their frenchy friends the u

01:40

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

01:43

this case john fell John had us pretty well covered

01:46

What about e to resolve a deadlocked election for the

01:50

national executive Well imagine a us without a president That

01:55

was the system under the articles of confederation So in

01:58

this case the authors of the o c had already

02:01

elected not to elect brilliant which means the original purpose

02:05

of the seventeen eighty seven philadelphia convention was a to

02:09

amend the articles of confederation The delegates originally got together

02:13

with the plan of improving on the articles even though

02:16

they eventually decided to throw the whole thing out and

02:18

start from scratch So a is the correct answer After

02:22

writing the constitution delegates had to convince the rest of

02:25

the country to follow suit holding a series of state

02:27

conventions and publicity campaigns Tto win the population Over Eventually

02:32

all the states ratified the new document which definitely constituted

02:37

a success But um

Full Transcript