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allodial
02-29-16, 02:23 AM
Duplicate post. Proper link here (http://savingtosuitorsclub.net/showthread.php?2041-quot-Adoption-quot-of-the-Constitution-for-the-United-States-of-America).

shikamaru
03-02-16, 08:02 PM
Yep....

The commission of the delegates of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 were to revise the Articles of Confederation, not to create a constitution.

In other words, the delegates violated their commission. We could say that what they crafted was ultra vires.