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Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

This week, episode 350, signing the Constitution.

And for the past few weeks, we've covered the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

We primarily looked at the powers of Congress that made up Article 1 and the powers of the executive, which were laid out in Article 2.

This week, we're going to go through all the rest of the articles in One Bang.

I think Article 1 was by far the most important topic of debate at the Convention. Article 2 received a considerable amount of debate as well. The rest were debated, but not quite as much, so I think it'll be a little easier to go through all of them. Article 3 of the Constitution established a federal judiciary. When convention came to this after considerable debate,

at the beginning of the convention, the Virginia plan called for the judiciary to be chosen by the legislature and to hold offices during good behavior. The New Jersey plan called for a federal

court to be chosen by the executive,

but didn't see the need for any sort of trial courts. In debate, the delegates generally agreed

by consensus that there should be a court to hear certain matters. Some delegates oppose the

idea of creating inferior courts, arguing that state courts could handle most cases and that needed appeals could go to

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