Assertion: convention | /r/CapableOf | amend the articles of confederation
Facets:
value: ostensibly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Stimulated by severe economic troubles, which produced radical political movements such as Shays’s Rebellion, and urged on by a demand for a stronger central government, the convention met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia (May 25–September 17, 1787), ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation.