Articles Of Confederation Vs Civil War

this wasn't the first time people in our country felt concern that a strong central federal government with too much power over the states would put them under the rule of a tyrant. People fled from that and started our country over that issue. People fought the Revolution over that issue. People debated the Constitution over that issue. And, yes, people in the confederacy seceded the union and fought the
To understand the civil war, a person needs to know more than just the fact that people owned slaves and Abe Lincoln sought to abolish it. It goes back to the drafting of the Constitution. The vision for the union that ended up being drafted in the Articles of Confederation was that of a confederation of mostly independent states, tied together loosely with a Congress as a supervisory body for the common good, mostly to keep Britain from taking over. The federal congress was intentionally written with weak powers. Federal government under the articles was extremely limited: …show more content…
All powers not specifically given to the federal government belonged to the states, with a very specific requirement that any changes at the federal level be unanimously agreed upon by all states.

So, none of this is myth. The Civil War was over states rights versus federal overreach, with slavery being the