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The answer is the Articles of Confederation. But, the person who just gave their answer, probably would get a headache just thinking about it while they're sitting in their trailer eating porkrinds because they don't care about academics, and clearly, their life is going nowhere! :)

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The United States Constitution was ratified on 21 June 1788. Prior to that, the states operated under the Articles of Confederation.

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The states were bound together rather loosely under the Articles of Confederation.

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