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The Articles of Confederation were probably one of the leading factors to the demise of the USA due to the sheer amount of problems it had. They were almost replaced at the Constitutional Convention before that outbreak of yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia. What if that outbreak had hit at a later time or killed fewer people?