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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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