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The Annapolis Convention, formally titled as a Meeting of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government was a Georgia had taken no action at all.
The final report of the convention was sent to the Congress and to the states. The report asked support for a broader constitutional convention to be held the following May in Philadelphia. It expressed the hope that more states would be represented and that their delegates or deputies would be authorized to examine areas broader than simply commercial trade.[2]
It is unclear how much weight the Convention's call carried, but the urgency of the reform was highlighted by a number of rebellions that took place all over the country. While most of them were easily suppressed, Shays's Rebellion lasted from August 1786 till February 1787. The rebellion called attention to both popular discontent and government's weakness.[3]
The direct result of the Annapolis Convention report and the ensuing events was the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, during which the United States Constitution was drafted.
The states represented, and their delegates were:[4]
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James Madison, New York, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, The Federalist Papers
Voltaire, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Denis Diderot, Liberalism
United States, United States Declaration of Independence, South Carolina, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams
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Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts
Virginia, New York, American Revolution, Pennsylvania, Connecticut
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