REAL United States History

(From The WallBuilders..)  Constitutional Convention Begins Before the Constitution, America's national government operated under the Articles of Confederation which was a flawed document that went through numerous attempted fixes. In September 1786, delegates from five states met in the Annapolis Convention as part of these efforts. At the end of that convention, they called for a meeting of all the states. This meeting -- which would become known as the Constitutional Convention -- officially began on May 25, 1787. The first several weeks of the Convention were frustrating as the delegates deadlocked over many issues. At the height of this impasse, Benjamin Franklin made his famous appeal for prayer: In this situation of this Assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understa...