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Why did the delegates at the constitutional convention insist on meeting in private

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they were afraid of losing their states rights 
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User Judge Maygarden
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Quote by George Mason

"It is expected our doors will be shut, and communications upon the business of the Convention be forbidden during its sitting. This, I think, myself, a proper precaution to prevent mistakes and misrepresentation until the business shall have been completed, when the whole may have a very different complexion from that in which the several crude and indigested parts might, in their first shape, appear if submitted to the public eye."
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