He is universally respected and admired, but Washington has a mostly ceremonial role at the Convention.

Like Locke, Montesquieu is dead by 1787 and would only appear in a flashback or in conversation of the other characters.

As the architect of the Great Compromise, Sherman is highly influential in the creation of the Constitution.

While not at the convention, Henry delivers powerful speeches against the Constitution.

Mason is a major delegate at the Convention, but stuns everyone when he votes against the document and then is a leading voice against ratification.

Madison's work makes him the clear star of the Convention, and by writing the Bill of Rights, he finds a way to compromise with the Anti-Federalist antagonists.

While Hamilton fails to convince anyone of his ideas at the convention, as an author of the Federalist Papers, he is influential in the ratification of the Constitution.