Dave Davies

There were shops and homes were looted.

The population suffered.

There were food shortages.

And there was a lot of anger there.

And in 1779, a mob starts going after people regarded as disloyal.

They target Wilson's home.

Tell us what happened.

So let's talk about the Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787.

Colonies, after they separated from Britain, they had a loose federation governed by the Articles of Confederation, which didn't really work.

And so a bunch of them came together in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia to craft a new constitution.

And it's really kind of interesting just what a weird –

Enterprise this was.

These were people who had no particular authority to do this, right?

I mean who does bring birth to a nation?

You write that one delegate from Georgia said Wilson ranks among the foremost in legal and political knowledge.

The delegates were very impressed with him.

Tell us about that relationship.

Right.

But there were some things he did win and that was the popular election to representatives of the House of Representatives.

And that wasn't an equal apportion for each state.