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Delegates from every colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia. Nearly two months, the members of that first Continental Congess discussed the worsening situation and debated plans for action. They sent a Declaration of Rights. They protesting Britain's colonial policies, to King George the third.
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A "shot heard'round the world" had been fired. Lexington and Concord had been fighting three weeks earlier, on Aprol, 19. A revolution had begun.
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New Hampshire adopted a constitution to replace their Royal Charter. A few months later, South Carolina followed and on May 10th, nearly two months before the adoption of the declaration of independence, congress urged each of the colonies to adopt.
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The Congress and a Committee of five; Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robrt Livingston and Thomas Jefferson adopted the Declaration of Independence, had proclaimed the existence of the new nation.
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Since the articles of Confederation were approved, it had established "a firm league" . each state kept it's sovereignty, freedom, and independence.
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Most of the States adopted written constitutions; the bodies of fundemental laws for teh people to follow and to have a steady body of the state.
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States taxed eachother on goods and even banned some trade.
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Demand grew for a stronger government, those threatened by economic and political instability soon took the lead into efforts to that end.
