When the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, they faced three broad choices regarding the relation of the states to the Union. First, they could create a single consolidated nation along the lines of England or France—perhaps preserving existing state governments as administrative units, perhaps breaking them up and drawing new boundaries of more equal dimensions. Only a few delegates openly supported this approach, most notably Alexander Hamilton and George Read of Delaware, though Anti-Federalists typically claimed that the Constitutioncame as close to a consolidated nation-state as the delegates dared.
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