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This week on the Lectures and History Podcast, University of Dallas history professor

William Otto discusses the decade leading to the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

The convention took place from May 14th to September 17th, 1787, and debated how much power to give to the central government, how many representatives each state would have in Congress, and even how those representatives would be elected.

Coming up, a discussion on the key compromises the delegates made that led to the ratification of the United States Constitution.

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morning guys um so the aftermath of the revolution, there are a couple things that are clear, abundantly

clear.

One of them is the fact of independence, right, that these colonies would now be sovereign in their

own right and moving forward forward determine their own destiny.

But aside from that, there are a number of things that aren't clear.

And those would be the question of power in particular, the relationship of power between the states

and between the states and the central government.

And that was, you know, a set of critical questions, critical enough that, excuse me,

John Quincy Adams referred to this as a critical period in American history, and that's why

I have critical period up on the board. You don't see that term always utilized so much any longer.

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