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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 Wall Street Journal blamed the weak showing of economic conservatives in recent elections--in France, Britain, and the United States--on those nations' insufficient economic conservatism.