Question

Why did the delegates at the constitutional convention insist on meeting in private

Answer 1

Quote by George Mason

"It is expected our doors will be shut, and communications upon the business of the Convention be forbidden during its sitting. This, I think, myself, a proper precaution to prevent mistakes and misrepresentation until the business shall have been completed, when the whole may have a very different complexion from that in which the several crude and indigested parts might, in their first shape, appear if submitted to the public eye."

Answer 2

They were afraid of losing their states rights