Republican Charlie Baker won a Massachusetts match-up against Martha Coakley, the state attorney general who lost a special Senate election to Scott Brown in 2010. Republicans also continued their dominance of governors' mansions when a number of GOP leaders fought off stiff challenges from Democrats.
Confidence votes 52.7K. The Constitutional Convention (or the Philadelphia Convention) was called to amend the Articles of Confederation, the rules for the United States' first independent government.But when the fifty-five delegates attempted to amend the plan, they realized the task was impossible. The building in which the Constitutional Convention was held is what was then known as the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Publisher. A+E Networks. On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin to assemble in Philadelphia to confront a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as defined by the Article of Confederation.etween Madisonâs initial call for the states to send delegates to Annapolis and the presentation of Madisonâs Virginia plan for a new government to the convention in Philadelphia, a fundamental shift in the aims of the convention process had taken place.