Delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed to meet behind locked doors and to keep their deliberations secret until the convention was over in order to
a. make the lobbying efforts of the special interest groups less obvious to the public.
b. ensure that they would be able to give full attention to the lobbyists, without regard for how such actions might appear to the public.
c. avoid becoming “beset by a horde of citizens seeking to advance their own interests.”
d. hold hearings for the lobbyists who sought to shape the outcomes of the policy debates.
c. avoid becoming “beset by a horde of citizens seeking to advance their own interests.”
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