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Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

This week, episode 347, the Constitutional Convention's biggest fight. Last week, we covered how the Constitutional Convention spent about

three days, just setting up procedures and selecting the officers that would run the way the

convention worked. So it was really not until Wednesday, May 30th,

1787 that the committee of the whole finally got down to business on what they were all there to talk about.

Chairman Nathaniel Gorham brought the committee to order. Their first point of discussion was the

Virginia plan, which was introduced by Edmund Randolph, but largely

written by James Madison. Before we dive into that, I just want to say that typically with this

podcast, I've tried to stick to events in chronological order. I'm going to depart from that

slightly for the next few weeks. I want to focus on several of the constitutional debates that occurred during the

convention, but the delegates did not just deal with one issue and then move on to the next. Instead,

they debated an issue for a while, then they went on to a different one, then they came back to

the first one again. Since I want to focus on this important event over a few episodes,

I'm going to take a look at a

particular issue or set of issues in each episode and then cover those issues through the

course of the debate over the entire convention until the delegates reach their final outcome.

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