And that too proved problematic. Within just a few years, it became apparent that we couldn't survive unless we had a national government that was capable of functioning as such, and that Our national government couldn't function effectively as such as a national government unless it had a few powers, including a power to coordinate, regulate commerce between the states and with foreign nations, including the power to raise taxes. to, among other things, fund war efforts, fund national defense, assemble armies, and so forth. And so it was against that backdrop that our Founding Fathers came together in that hot summer of 1787 in Philadelphia. (11:01–11:20)
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