The resolution authorized a convention "with the sole and specific purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation". Although the Articles did not include the possibility of any kind of convention, they did not explicitly demand that it was precisely the Congress that drafted the necessary changes. All that the Articles demanded was that "modification be agreed upon in a United States Congress and then confirmed by the legislative organs of all states" (Article XIII). The Congress authorized the proposal of changes from a non-constitutional body; but all that was permitted was precisely that the changes to the Articles would be proposed, although there was no restriction on the magnitude of the changes that could be proposed, and many feared,