Gap Filling: The following passage is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box (there are more words than necessary).

force / steady / dependent / able / unite / among / hold / call / approve / apply / remarkably / with / turn

     Before the war ended, these thirteen states realized that they would need to work together in peacetime as they had been ______ to do in wartime. In 1782 they put into effect a plan for ______ under a federal system. This meant that each of the states would remain ______ in many ways but would join with the others in a government that would be able to do things that individual states could not do by themselves with success. Unfortunately this plan did not provide for a federal government strong enough to ______ it to do what needed to be done. This became clear after a few years of experience. In 1786 a call went out to all the states inviting them to send delegates to a meeting to be held in Philadelphia in the spring of 1787. This meeting was the Constitutional Convention, a great _______ point in American history.
     No more important meeting has ever been held in America. To it came fifty-five men,  ______ them some of the most famous men in our history. They included George Washington who presided over the convention, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. They worked ______ and in secret from May well into September and adjourned only after they had written a new plan of government to be sent to the thirteen states for ______. The document was the Constitution of the United States. A great English statesman called this constitution “the most ______ work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its ______ to political affairs.” Before 1788 had ended, the Constitution had been approved in most of the states and in 1789 it went into effect. Since then it has been the fundamental law of the nation.

(From The Constitution of the United States)