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The convention met from September 11 to September 14 , 1786 . The commissioners felt that there were not a sufficient number of states represented to make any substantive agreement. New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , and North Carolina had appointed commissioners who failed to get to the meeting in time to attend it, while Connecticut , Maryland , South Carolina and Georgia had taken no action at all. They produced a report which was sent to the Continental Congress and to the states. The report asked support for a broader meeting to be held the next May in Philadelphia . It expressed the hope that more states would be represented and that their delegates or deputies would be authorized to examine areas broader than simply commercial trade. The direct result of the report was the Constitutional Convention of 1787 . DELEGATES The states represented, and their delegates were:
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