The body of government was the Congress, comprising delegates from the thirteen states. ... Only in one area did the Congress coax a unified policy from the states, the area of land reform. The major landholding states--Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts--did cede their western lands to the Congress. ... The founding fathers realized this need for a stronger central government and eventually organized at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to discuss the problem. ... Although problems continued to exist over questions like whether to have a national bank, the Founding...

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