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To revise the Articles of Confederation. Congress realized that the Articles were to terrible to be revised, so they started from scratch, and thus comes the Constitution.

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The constitutional convention was called to reviese the Articles of Confederation.

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When was the contitutional convention held?

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Number of delegates at the contitutional convention?

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How did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention resolve tensions?

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