President Washington selects his cabinet and sets the precedent on how cabinet meetings work.  

This wasn't really an election... not in the way we think of elections today. This was more like... a coronation by consensus.

We move to Virginia, whose ratification will complete the supermajority required for ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America.   

We turn to the debates in the Massachusetts ratification convention.   

The first major convention starts in Philadelphia with mobs forcing a vote for the date. Everyone knows, so goes Pennsylvania so goes the small states around them.    

The proposed constitution hit the newspapers, and public figures start taking positions and or writing with pen names to argue their points in the public sphere

Without records of all of the debates, I give the context of the materials we will cover in this season.  

The completed constitution of the Unite States of America.  

The Philadelphia convention will close with a draft of a new American constitution.  

The convention settles on the Sherman compromise for the legislature and take up the issue of slavery. Washington will form a committee of detail to draw up all of the points agreed to into a new document.