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Continental CongressIn US history, the federal legislature of the original 13 states, acting as a provisional government before the American Revolution. It convened in Philadelphia from 1774 to 1789, when the US Constitution was adopted. The Second Continental Congress, convened in May 1775, was responsible for drawing up the Declaration of Independence (1776) and, in 1777, the Articles of Confederation. The Congress authorized an army to resist the British and issued paper money to finance the war effort. It also oversaw the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention.
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