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ERROR: "The Constitution Was America's First Governing Document"

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The claim that the Constitution was the United States' first governing document is false: the Articles of Confederation governed first, from 1781 to 1789.

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The Constitutional Convention of 1787 met to fix the Articles, not to write on a blank page.

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"First" belongs to the Articles; "current" belongs to the Constitution.

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