Edmund Morgan quoteEdmund Morgan [1916-0]
American Historian 
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| In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature. |
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