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Compromise & The Constitution
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 produced the most enduring
written Constitution ever created by human hands. Though the United States existed
prior to the ratification of the Constitution, it was a nation held together by the
tenuous threads of the Articles of Confederation, a sometimes contentious, and often
ineffectual national government. The men who were at Philadelphia that hot summer
hammered out a document that was the result of dozens of com...