Annapolis Convention

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• From Annapolis to Philadelphia

  • Prior to the Philadelphia Convention, delegates met twice-—at Mount Vernon and Annapolis—to discuss changes to the Confederation.
  • Prior to the Annapolis Convention and the 1787 Philadelphia convention that saw the drafting of the United States Constitution, delegates from Virginia and Maryland met at George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, Virginia in March 1785.
  • In January 1786, Virginia invited all the states to attend a meeting on commercial issues that would be the ground-breaking Annapolis Convention, where twelve delegates from five states unanimously called for a constitutional convention.
  • Long dissatisfied with the weak Articles of Confederation, Alexander Hamilton of New York played a major role in the Annapolis Convention.
  • The convention met in September 1786.

• Nationalists of the 1780s

  • Long dissatisfied with the weak Articles of Confederation, nationalists drafted a resolution to form the Annapolis Convention.
  • In September 1786, meeting to discuss the various conflicts at what came to be known as the Annapolis Convention, delegates of five states called for all states to meet in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787 to discuss ways to improve the Articles of Confederation.
  • Rhode Island, fearing that the Convention would work to its disadvantage, boycotted the Convention and in 1788 refused ratification on the first try.
  • The direct result of the report was the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, which produced the United States Constitution.
  • Explain why states were motivated to come together at the Annapolis Convention

• Calls for a Stronger Constitution

  • This meeting, which came to be known as the Mount Vernon Conference, preceded the Annapolis Convention of 1786 and was a precursor of the 1787 Philadelphia Convention that saw the drafting of the US Constitution.
  • This would later become known as the groundbreaking Annapolis Convention.
  • In 1787, the Philadelphia Convention further expanded cooperation to include all states in an effort to reform or replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution.

• Powers of the Assemblies

  • By 1775 the authority of its English governor, Sir Robert Eden, had been effectively usurped by the Annapolis Convention, and Eden was eventually asked by the Maryland Council of Safety to step down as governor .
  • The Maryland Convention had been pressed by the Continental Congress (and the Virginians in particular) to arrest and detain Eden, but they demurred, preferring to avoid such an "extreme" measure.
  • Eventually the Maryland Convention formally asked the Governor to leave, and Governor Eden finally departed Maryland for England in the ship Fowey on June 23, 1776.
  • Sir Robert Eden, last colonial Governor of Maryland, who found his authority overthrown by the Annapolis Convention.

• The Articles of Confederation

  • Outcry for a convention to revise the Articles grew louder.
  • Subsequently, at what came to be known as the Annapolis Convention, in 1786, the few state delegates in attendance endorsed a motion that called for all states to meet in Philadelphia in May 1787 to discuss ways to improve the Articles.
  • This meeting became known as the Constitutional Convention.

• The Confederation's Weaknesses

• Governors and Assemblies

  • By 1775, the authority of its English governor, Sir Robert Eden, had been effectively usurped by the Annapolis Convention, and Eden was eventually asked by the Maryland Council of Safety to step down as governor.
  • The Maryland Convention had been pressed by the Continental Congress (and the Virginians in particular) to arrest and detain Eden, but they demurred, preferring to avoid such an "extreme" measure.
  • Eventually, the Maryland Convention formally asked the governor to leave, and Governor Eden finally departed Maryland for England on June 23, 1776.
  • Government House is the official residence of the governor of Maryland and is located at State Circle in Annapolis, Maryland.

• The Confederation's Problems

  • The outcry for a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation grew louder.
  • Subsequently, at the 1786 Annapolis Convention, 12 delegates from five different states unanimously petitioned Congress to call a constitutional convention to meet in Philadelphia and produce a remedy for the long-term crisis.

• The Hartford Convention

  • At the Hartford Convention of 1814, New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances over current events.
  • The depth of the Federalists’ discontent became evident when twenty-six Federalists met in Connecticut in December of 1814 for the Hartford Convention.
  • The convention ended with a report and resolutions, signed by the delegates present and adopted on the day before final adjournment.
  • This image shows a page from Theodore Lyman's 1823 book on the Hartford Convention that lists the names of New England delegates who attended the meeting.
  • Describe the political and economic circumstances that gave rise to the Hartford Convention

• Modern Warfare

  • The United States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis created dedicated cadres of professional officers with strong backgrounds in military science.