In late 1814, Federalist delegates, primarily moderates, gathered in Hartford, Connecticut, to address a series of grievances and assert the rights of states. Their primary concern revolved around the growing belief that New Englanders were becoming a permanent minority in a nation increasingly dominated by southern Republicans, who they felt did not understand New England'
to prohibit the election of two successive Presidents from the same state
to limit the President to a single term
to require a 2/3 vote of Congress to declare war and admit new states into the Union
to ammend the Constitution to abolish the 3/5 law
Why: to pass a series of revolutions summarizing New England's grievances
The belief that New Englanders were becoming a permanent minority in a nation dominated by southern Republicans who failed to understand New England's commercial interests
