you are right benjamin frankel looks at that chair and where the carvings and said son on the back ofrising or setting. when they finish in 1787 at the end of the summer it is rising. but it is his service it's the biggest part of washington's life frequency watches the delegates to get out. it is very intense. it will determine if the united states is the united states. they still have to get it raratifiedwhen they are done. you read madison's notes, did washington say much during the constitutional convention? he didn't he was pretty silent throughout it and purposely so. he believed as the arbiter sitting in that chair he should keep his thoughts to himself until the end but he was over watching presence. he gave the convention a gravitas and adjust his presence. but he was silent a lot of the time. he did get into the middle of disputes and try to find common ground. he thought that it was good to have this dissent in the back and forth over. representation for small states in big states that was a big deal. what the executive should look like and what it should be called. we forg