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Act I in the Drama of Making the Constitution Began
The piece traces the Potomac boundary dispute from 1661 through 1787, showing how Maryland and Virginia toiled over the river line and oyster beds, then fed into the push for a stronger central government, culminating in the Philadelphia convention that drafted the Constitution. It highlights key figures like Madison, Hamilton, and Washington, and notes the young, diverse roster of delegates who shaped the birth of the United States Constitution.
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Elmo Scott Watson
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
Jennifer
Alexandria
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Congress
Ison
United States
Continental Congress
England
Philadelphia
Princeton
N. J
Alexander Hamilton
Madison
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
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Gorman
Rufus King
Nicholas Gilman
John Langdon
New Jersey
David Breasley
Jonathan Dayton
William Livingston
William Patterson
New York
North Carolina
William Blount
Richard D. Spaight
Hugh Williamson
Pennsylvania
George Clymer
Thomas Fitzsimmons
Benjamin Franklin
Jared Ingersoll
Thomas Mifflin
Gouvernieur Morris
Inner Temple
Middle Temple
Charles Pinckney
James Madison
Liberty
Independence Hall
Western Newspaper Union