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Why did the state delegates meet in 1787? to discuss a better system of government to elect George Washington as president to write the Articles of Confederation to collect taxes to pay the nation s debt

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The reason why state delegates met in 1787 was "to discuss a better system of government," since it had become clear by this time that the Articles of Confederation needed to at least be seriously revised.
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