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title: "The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to fix problems in the Articles of Confederation. What did the delegates do instead?"  
description: "The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to fix problems in the Articles of Confederation. What did the delegates do instead?"  
author: "Rivera fuller"  
published: 2018-04-24  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41480/the-purpose-of-the-constitutional-convention-was-to-fix-problems-in-the-articles-of-confederation-what-did-the-delegates-do-instead  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to fix problems in the Articles of Confederation. What did the delegates do instead? 

The [purpose](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51345/what-was-the-purpose-of-grandfather-clauses) of the [Constitutional Convention](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41193/what-2-leaders-called-for-a-meeting-at-philadelphia-to-revise-the-articles-leading-to-the-constitutional-convention) was to fix problems in the [Articles](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12872/how-to-write-articles-of-50-and-more-a-day-quick-and-easy) of Confederation. What did the delegates do instead?


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