When the Constitutional Convention convened Massachusetts on 9 January 1788, Anti-Federalists were in the majority. Two days earlier "near four hundred of the most respectable real Tradesmen" of Boston, led by Paul Revere, John Lucas, and Benjamin Russell, met at the Green Dragon Tavern and approved resolutions supporting the Constitution:
the proposed frame of government is well calculated secure the liberties, protect the property, and guard rights of the citizens of America. . . .
trade and navigation will revive and increase, employ and subsistence will be afforded to many of our townsmen, who are now suffering from want of the necessaries life ......
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