Start of the Constitution

The United States constitution almost didn't have the chance to be formed. General George Washington had been asked to come to a convention to help Amend the Articles of Confederation. Washington didn't feel that this convention was go to be able to succeed and even worse wouldn't be able to make meaningful changes. One state went so far as to not even send any representatives to the convention. Rhode Island felt that the convention was going to attempt to do away with the Articles of Confederation (technically they were correct) and this to them was unacceptable. Many of these states and people who were opposed to the convention wanted to keep the state governments strong and have a weak national government.

Luckily for US (ha ha that can be a pun) General Washington came and was willing to preside over the processions, because of this the convention became illegitimate and was able to come up with a binding constitution. Although its not like it was something super easy to do. Many people devoted hundreds and hundreds of hours to accomplish this task.

(side note on this photo the version that we see is modified the original has one person's foot getting stepped on)