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In 1787 the delegates of the first twelve states, with only Rhode Island as the thirteenth state of the former British colonies that would later form the United States of America not participating, had gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of the Confederation. As it turned out, what came to known as the Philadelphia Convention, decided to develop and propose a new constitution without actually being told to do so. This process finally led to the Constitution of the United States of America, which was then adopted and signed by 39
of the 55 convention’s participants on September 17th the same year...
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- Martin Riggler (Author), 2008, The structure and functional logic of the Constitution of the United States of America, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/123087
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