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The Constitution grew out of a convention held in 1787 by a cabal of elite politicians, including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who decided that the nation's founding document, the Articles of Confederation, was too weak to hold the . But many citizens eyed the Constitutional Convention of 1787 warily, worrying that a strengthened federal authority would metamorphose into precisely the sort of tyranny they had just toppled.
On the vast three-sided Confederation Square — popularly known for its traffic congestion as “Confusion Square” — notice the great granite arch of the National War Memorial, with its statues of 22 World War I soldiers and a horse-drawn cannon.
Last to join the Canadian Confederation, in 1949, the offshore island of Newfoundland is linked as one province with the mainland region of Labrador.
The Articles of Confederation explicitly stated that revision required the consent of every state, but the Philadelphia conventioneers, doubtful they'd achieve unanimity, lowered the threshold to nine of 13 states--on no authority but their own say-so.
The Lombards controlled the interior in a loose confederation of fiercely independent duchies.