Promoting their economic wealth and maintaining the property rights.
A conference was called to discuss interstate commerce, instead asked for an expanded meeting of state delegates to Philadelphia in 1787 “To elaborate such provisions as necessary to adapt the Constitution federal government to the requirements of the Union ”. The situation was aggravated in January 1787 for the Shays Rebellion, in which 2,000 veterans of the War of Independence took in arms and seized an arsenal in Massachusetts to protest the high taxes and the loss of their agricultural properties by debt.
