Why were the sessions of the constitutional convention held in secret

The convention delegates agreed to protect themselves from the “licentious publications of their proceedings” by voting to keep those proceedings a complete secret from all outsiders, including the press.

i think it is the byzantine empire

apartheid, (afrikaans: “apartness”) policy that governed relations between south africa's white minority and nonwhite majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. people should not get this wrong. i was just answering a question.