How long could the union last under the articles of confederation

If the Constitutional Convention fails to reach an agreement to a replace the constitution, how long would the nation be able to last under the Articles of Confederation? Could they have passed a fourteenth article that would act as a stop gap measure to hold the nation together for a little while longer.
 

Anaxagoras

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I think the Continental Congress would continue to exist on paper but would simply fade away in importance over the subsequent decade. There would not be a single day on which the Americans woke up and realized they were no longer in a Union; it would simply evolve that way over the next few years. Eventually, two of the states would get involved in some sort of shooting war with each other and it would not occur to anybody to ask what the Continental Congress thought of it.
 
Many more years than people give it credit for. For the most part it was an opening act that has been completely overshadowed by that which followed, pretty much like all the American leaders that proceeded Washington. The nation rebuilds and redefines itself every generation or so and the previous age entirely discounted. We consider things great under the current manifestation that we can not consider things as either the same nor better under anything else.
 
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