sentences:  The local freeholders elected Henry to the House of Delegates in early 1787, and he would serve there until the end of 1790.The new governor, Randolph, offered to make Henry a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, scheduled to meet in Philadelphia later that year to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation, the document that had governed the loose union among the states since 1777.Henry refused the appointment, alleging it would be difficult financially.