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What was the main issue for why possible delegates didn't go to the Constitutional Convention?

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Increasing power of the national government.

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They feared a strong federal government

A strong federal government according to these delegates would exercise absolutism and dictatorship. One of the delegates who did not attend the conference were the Rhodesians.

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