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Which of the founding fathers favored a Constitutional Convention?

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Its advocates were zealous. James Madison and George Washington in Virginia, Alexander Hamilton in New York, and James Wilson (1742-98) and Benjamin Franklin in Pennsylvania all favored some new scheme.

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