So a lot of the movers and shakers, the Ben Franklins, the Madisons, the George Washingtons, all we got to figure out, how do we get a governing framework. So They go back to Philadelphia in 1787 and they do the... Constitutional Convention, to try to create a federal government framework that would be limited and enumerated powers, but that would be able to do the core things that you would need a nation to do while leaving to the states most of the other things that affect people's daily lives. And so they labored on that. And yet all these things here, there other ways. At one point, Benjamin Franklin, when things look desperate, he stood up and said, how are we doing this? (18:46–19:09)
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Asserts the purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to create a federal government with limited and enumerated powers.
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