The Articles of Confederation was created on November 15, 1777. The Continental Congress created the Articles of Confederation to state the rules by which the new nation was to be governed. The states that agreed to adhere to the articles stated in the Articles of Confederation are New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The Articles of Confederation declare that “Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation, expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.” (Articles of Confederation). The Articles of Confederation therefore give a majority of the power to
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Instead of revising the Articles of Confederation as they had planned to do the state representatives decided to start over, they created the Constitution. The Constitution declares how the government is to be run and states laws that must be followed. The Constitution was created by men who remembered the treatment that they received from a strong central power, but they also knew that the Constitution had allow the central government more power than the Articles of Confederation did. The men that wrote the Constitution had lived through the American Revolution, but they had also lived through Bacon’s Rebellion, these experiences showed through in the Articles of the Constitution as a repercussion. Article one states that the power shall be held by Congress, which is to be split up into the Senate and the House of Representatives. Therefore no one person, or one set of people could rule over the people without being able to be opposed, thus showing the people that the new United States’ government was going to allow the people to be represented, and that the power was not able to be abused by one person or one group of
Instead of revising the Articles of Confederation as they had planned to do the state representatives decided to start over, they created the Constitution. The Constitution declares how the government is to be run and states laws that must be followed. The Constitution was created by men who remembered the treatment that they received from a strong central power, but they also knew that the Constitution had allow the central government more power than the Articles of Confederation did. The men that wrote the Constitution had lived through the American Revolution, but they had also lived through Bacon’s Rebellion, these experiences showed through in the Articles of the Constitution as a repercussion. Article one states that the power shall be held by Congress, which is to be split up into the Senate and the House of Representatives. Therefore no one person, or one set of people could rule over the people without being able to be opposed, thus showing the people that the new United States’ government was going to allow the people to be represented, and that the power was not able to be abused by one person or one group of