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Second. Articles of Confederation were the first.

Third if you count the Civil War and Reconstruction.



I might grant the Articles of Confederation for the sake of argument.

The Civil War failed, so that one doesn't count. The post-Civl War United States continued to operate under the same Constitution. There were some new amendments, certainly, but it wasn't scrapped and rewritten from scratch, and the overall form of the government of the United States remained the same.




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