Maybe churches and cathedrals, but I'm not sure if that's considered institutions.
I'd say so. The Articles of Confederation actually gave the states too much individual power to begin with, and that's why they revised it/changed it.
Interesting document.
It was issued by the German Foreign office (January 1917) proposing that Mexico should align itself with Germany in the even America enter the war. Germany was pleading for an alliance that would keep America busy dealing with an attack from the south. Fortunately it didn't work.
