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Boundary and convention that shaped the U S Constitution
A historical account traces the Potomac boundary disputes from 1661 through 1787, detailing Maryland and Virginia conflicts, the 1785 and 1787 commissions, and the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention where 55 delegates, led by Madison and Hamilton, drafted the framework of the United States Constitution.
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Potomac River
Potomac
United States of America
Maryland
Virginia
Commonwealths
Bay of Chesapeake
Potomack
Pocomoke
Edmund Randolph
George Mason
James Madison, Jr
Alexander Henderson
Thomas Johnson
Thomas Stone
Samuel Chase
Daniel
St. Thomas
Congress
Ison
United States
Continental Congress
England
Philadelphia
Princeton
N. J
New York
Massachusetts
Daniel Shays
Boston
Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Patrick Henry
Connecticut
Roger Sherman
William S. Johnson
Delaware
Richard Bassett
Gunning Bedford, Jr
Jacob Broom
John Dickinson
George Read
Georgia
Abraham Baldwin
William Few
Daniel Carroll
Daniel Jenifer
James McHenry
Nathaniel Gorman
Rufus King
Nicholas Gilman
John Langdon
New Jersey
David Breasley
Jonathan Dayton
William Livingston
William Patterson
North Carolina
William Blount
Richard D. Spaight
Hugh Williamson
Pennsylvania
George Clymer
Thomas Fitzsimmons
Benjamin Franklin
Jared Ingersoll
Thomas’ Mifflin
Gouvernieur Morris
Robert Morris
James Wilson
South Carolina
Pierce Butler
Charles ‘Pinckney
Charles ‘C. Pinckney
John Rutledge
John Blair
James Nese
George
George Washington
Independence Halls
James Madison