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Which Constitutional Convention did Patrick Henry decline to participate in?

  • 1787 Constitutional Convention

  • 1774 Continental Congress

  • 1775 Virginia Convention

  • 1781 Peace Convention

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In 1787, Patrick Henry, a prominent American statesman and orator, famously declined to participate in the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia. He believed that the proposed Constitution granted too much power to the federal government and encroached upon state sovereignty.
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