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If all this is true, and the evidence is overwhelming that it is, then why did Americans create the Constitution? If the Confederation was not doing too bad a job of governing and commercial conditions in the 1780s were not actually desperate, why did
something as extraordinary as the Constitution have to be created?

Gordon S. Wood, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution (Oxford University Press: New York, NY, 2021), 56-59.

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