The articles of confederation was the first form of the American constitution. However, it failed after just eight years in effect. Its sole purpose was making sure they were not giving the national government sole power. They wanted it as weak as possible. It also carried many flaws. Some being, each state only had one vote in Congress regardless of the state's size. That was a problem because in order for a law to pass they had to get nine votes out of the thirteen. Another being, there was no executive branch to enforce any acts passed by congress. So congress could pass as many acts as they wanted but if there was nobody to enforce the acts seemed pointless. Due to that, some states began to make agreements with foreign countries. Almost
