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While not generally known, the Articles of Confederation contemplated the strong possibility that Canada would become part of the United States. However, there was too strong a Tory element in Canada and it did not happen. The Constitution was not drafted until 1787 and was ratified later. In the interim the young United States functioned under the Articles of Confederation, in a sense, our first Constitution.
Comintern was upset by the American Socialist Party because the party had rejected the 21 Conditions for Affiliation and withdrew their intent to join the Third International. To Comintern, the Socialist Party was a party of “bourgeois socialism.”