Our Convention was very interesting. We technically didn’t get much done, but we only had an hour and a half, so I guess it was good that we could not create a countries government in that long. I felt like it this activity really showed how hard it was for all of the people to agree on how to run a country. Everyone had opposing views and it was almost never a majority. I think one thing that had a major influence on our class was the fact that you were factoring winning into the grading system. I felt like it may have been easier to compromise if the competition wasn’t pushed as much. Obviously all of us would want to win, but as soon as you mentioned grades everyone got sort of tunnel vision on what their goals were and that they could not stray away, even if it was thought to be for the future America. Then again, I also …show more content…
We had an alliance with Massachusetts and I think that really helped just to have four other people to back up our heavily unpopular opinions, like anti-slavery. In preparation I felt that they were the only ones who had the same goals as us, everyone else was either big state and pro-slavery or small state and anti-slavery, which still provided major points of conflict. I also felt that I might have been too aggressive at the beginning of our preparatory classes also making us very unpopular (I’m putting that very lightly).
Overall, however, our state didn’t do horribly with reaching our goals. We didn’t abolish slavery, but we did manage to solidify a meeting at a later date to re-evaluate our need for them. I brought up this idea, which I suspect made you very uncomfortable because I wasn’t going to fight harder to abolish slavery, but at that point it was obvious no one would budge on his or her views. So I figured rather that leaving it undecided, have it placed in the Constitution so that eventual abolition will be