How the Hell was the Constitution a Revolution?

In this episode, John gets into the details of how the Constitutional Convention came together and what the agenda was for those most responsible for putting it together. John reviews through the weaknesses of the government under the Articles of Confederation that pushed the likes of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Robert Morris to call for a much stronger central government. He then explains how those men, thinking of themselves as "nationalists", recruited George Washington to their cause in order to bring legitimacy and popular support to their arguments.Finally, John discusses the days leading up to the first meeting of the full Constitutional Convention, on May 25, 1787. He goes over the men who planned an agenda to strengthen the national government: who they were, what they decided to emphasize and how they came together to execute a plan that would help to dictate the direction of the full convention.