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Memory, the Library's Web site of more than 8 million American historical
items. Before the Constitution was adopted, from 1774 until 1789, there
were the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention. The Continental
Congress began as a coordinated effort to resist the British. With the
outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the Congress became the central institution
for managing the struggle for American independence. A "Special Presentation,"
"To Form a More
Perfect Union," offers a brief overview of how the Revolutionary War
was organized through July 1788, when Congress received the momentous
news that New Hampshire had just become the ninth state to ratify the
new Constitution, making it the law of the land.