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Hello, and welcome to episode 339 of Ben Franklin's World.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our

early American past have shaped the present-day world we live in.

And on your host, Liz Kovar.

Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, Delgots from each of the United States' 13 states

assembled in Philadelphia for an event that we now call the Constitutional Convention.

The purpose of this convention was to rework and amend the United States' first Constitution

the Articles of Confederation.

But as many of the delegates thought the articles inadequate to the needs of the new nation,

the convention actually set about work drafting a new Constitution, a Constitution created

to solve the real problems of national government in 1787, and a Constitution we just still

in effect today.

So what do we know about the moment of the United States Constitution's creation?

What was happening around the convention and what issues were Americans discussing and

debating as the convention's delegates met?

Mary Sarah Builder, an award-winning historian and the founders professor of law at Boston

College Law School.

It joins us to investigate the context of the United States Constitution's creation,

through the eyes and experiences of a little-known woman named Eliza Harriet, who was among

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