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How long can the United States stay unified under the Articles of Confederation. At the time of the Philadelphia convention the United States was in a shambles. In debt, still recovering from the revolution financially and physically. The British still occupied forts in the North West Territory. To itself and the rest of the world it looked on the verge of collapes.

I tend to be of the opinion that without a new constitution, the United States would either collapse, break up, or succumb to some kind of Absolutist rule.

So I was wondering, if the constitutional convention had failed, how long would the United States last? Would it break up, or fall under some kind of dictatorial rule?
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