339 Women and the Constitutional Moment of 1787
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we now call the Constitutional Convention.
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 Bilder, an award-winning historian and the Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, joins us to investigate the context of the United States Constitution’s creation with details from her book, Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an airwave media podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Ben Franklin's world is a production of the |
| 0:06.2 | Omaha Institute and is sponsored by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. and welcome to episode 339 of Ben Franklin's world. |
| 0:24.6 | The podcast dedicated to helping you, |
| 0:26.8 | learn more about how the people and events |
| 0:28.8 | of our early American past |
| 0:30.4 | have shaped the present-day world we live in. And I'm your host, Liz Kovart. |
| 0:35.4 | Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, |
| 0:39.0 | delegates from each of the United States |
| 0:42.0 | assembled in Philadelphia for an event that we now |
| 0:44.9 | call the Constitutional Convention. |
| 0:47.4 | The purpose of this Convention was to rework and amend the United States' first Constitution, |
| 0:52.5 | the Articles of Confederation. |
| 0:54.6 | But as many of the delegates thought the articles |
| 0:56.6 | inadequate to the needs of the new nation, |
| 0:58.9 | the Convention actually said about work drafting |
| 1:01.0 | a new Constitution. A Constitution created to solve the real problems of |
| 1:05.1 | National Government in 1787 and a Constitution which is still in effect today. |
| 1:10.8 | So what do we know about the moment of the United States Constitution's creation? |
| 1:15.3 | What was happening around the Convention and what issues were Americans discussing and |
| 1:19.3 | debating as the Convention's delegates met? Mary Sarah Builder, an award-winning historian and the founder's professor of law at Boston College Law School. |
| 1:28.0 | joins us to investigate the context of the United States Constitution's creation through the eyes and experiences of a little bit of the United States Constitution's creation, |
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