Pros And Cons Under The Articles Of Confederation

The Framers of the United States Constitution ultimately decided to give more power to the Federal government rather than the state governments because the articles of confederation wasn’t running our country in the right direction. The Articles of confederation had no central power, at all. The Federal government then became the main focus of the two contracts, because it was more stable. Under the Articles of Confederation the state held all the power and they gave some power to the federal government, which caused economic, trading and law problems. The constitution then gave more power to the federal government and gave the states less power because that would give a central power for people.

The Articles of confederation was a disaster simply because it had no central power, it was all independence. In the Articles of Confederation the state government had all the power, like voting, which was unfair to the people because to get anything past you had to have a 9 out of 13 states to pass that particular law. Also under the Articles of Confederation there was no stable judiciary system, there was no National Court System, they only had Congress …show more content…
during this time there was a great divide between the Federalists and the Anti-federalists the Anti-federalists opposed the the constitution, they believed the president and government have too much power. The federalists supported a strong central government and believed the state should not have more power than central government. The farmers wanted to a stronger federal government because they were already broke and under the Articles of Confederation the economic problems were only getting worse. So by creating the constitution this allowed most farmers to live without struggle, the constitution didn’t really hurt anyone because it helped economically, gave us a better judiciary system and also made voting