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title: "What was the primary reason for holding the Constitutional Convention of 1787?"  
description: "What was the primary reason for holding the Constitutional Convention of 1787?"  
author: "Howard fuller"  
published: 2018-05-22  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42876/what-was-the-primary-reason-for-holding-the-constitutional-convention-of-1787  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What was the primary reason for holding the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

What was the [primary](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/213/keys-in-database) reason for holding 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) of 1787?\
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