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Circumstances favourable to the union of the colonies. The New England Confederacy (1643–84). Albany Congress (1754); Stamp Act Congress (1765); Committees of Correspondence (1772–75). The Continental Congress (1774–89). The several states were never at any time sovereign states. The Articles of Confederation. Nature and powers of the Continental Congress. It could not impose taxes, and therefore was not fully endowed with sovereignty. Decline of the Continental Congress. Weakness of the sentiment of union; anarchical tendencies. The Federal Convention (1787).