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The Secrecy rule said that the convention had to be held in secret and no outside sources could know what was being debated inside the convention. It helped delegates talk freely without the threat of media attention or possibly losing their political careers due to votes or subject matter they addressed.

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The rule of absolute secrecy at the constitutional convention was exactly what it sounds like: Nobody who was not one of the delegates at the convention couldn't know about the things that they were discussing until after final decisions were made.

This is important because they did not want to have regular citizens fighting over what they were saying. They wanted to have everyone calm, once there was a final outcome then America could debate all they wanted to. However, the did not want anyone debating about something that might not happen.

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