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Charged with creating a constitution (56), the founders drew up the Articles of Confederation (56), establishing a confederation (57) of sovereign states. The new government wasn’t strong enough to provide political stability in the face of popular discontent, however. Worried about popular tyranny (59), which they saw threatened in actions like Shays’s Rebellion (59), the political elite called for a new constitution.