History
To guard against oppressive government of any kind, the authors of the United States Constitution sought to establish institutional checks and balances. In framing the Constitution as the fundamental embodiment of such safeguards, the Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia in 1787, at the invitation of the Continental Congress. That is the last time a federal constitutional convention has convened in the United States.
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