Mendelssohn was appointed as the conductor of the Leipzig Orchestra in 1835. This setting was of great importance to him; he felt German and wanted to have a leading role in the musical life of his country. It was in some ways a compensation for previous disappointment. Despite the efforts of the Prussian king to bring him to Berlin, Mendelssohn focused his attention on the development of music life in Leipzig and in 1843 founded the Leipzig Conservatory, where he successfully attracted <u>Ignaz Moscheles and Robert Schumann.</u>
They built new paved roads so that a greater number of dump trucks could remove the excavated earth. They sprayed insecticides to kill mosquitoes and built concrete locks to raise ships to a higher elevation.
Article VII required the Constitution to be ratified by each state sending representatives, chosen by the people of that state, to a special meeting, instead asking the existing state governments to ratify the Constitution.
