The most important financial institution established in the United States before the adoption of the Constitution was the Bank of North America, still doing business in Philadelphia, with unbroken career through all the mutations of the eventful century which has passed since it was called into existence.
Blaine identifies the Bank of North America as a significant financial institution prior to the Constitution.
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