They constitution protect slavery in a way that you can pay people to work for you but you cannot make them do it they have to be their on their own consent and it proctect slavery because people were dying from being overworked and underpaid.
It was the "First Continental Congress" that was formed after the passage of the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts, since these Acts represented somewhat of a "final straw" in terms of royal mistreatment of the colonists.
Because they had a different currency than the rest of the world and wanted to compete in what historians call the "The Great Coin Race" which started in 19 A.D. and ended in 1339. The soon regretted this.
