Reply #23: Conflict at the Convention

[psholtz]

Some of the Founders were motivated by genuine love of country and love of their countrymen. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin are in this camp. So do (imho) George Washington and James Madison..

Other "founders" were little more than British agents sent to the Constitutional Convention to derail the whole process. Hamilton, of all the "Founders", is the leader of the category, although there were many others, including John Jay and Roger Morris (and many many others).

The Constitutional Convention, like all events in history, was a single "homogenous" event.. there where fights and battles between competing interests there, much like anywhere else..