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Another flaw of the Articles of Confederation was its economic condtions, which led to financial hardship for the emerging nation. By the late 1780’s, America was struggling to compete economically and pay off the debts it accumulated in its fight for independence. These problems became worse because of a series of economic limitations present in the Articles of Confederation. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had limited power to regulate trade. Congress was only able to regulate…

Under the Articles of Confederation, the government had very little power compared to the King who had total control and because of this we can compare it to modern day government in Somalia. Under reign of the King, the colonists were forced to abide by his laws and will. Whatever the King said, goes, which included taxation, such as the passing of the Stamp Act in 1765 which forced colonists to pay taxes on any printed federal papers, quartering of troops on the American soil, such as the…

Colonial freedom from Britain brought many political effects towards the United States. The Articles of Confederation provided a weak central government that politically hurt the nation . In addition, the establishment of the United States Constitution impacted the ways of the government and helped build a strong federal government. On the other hand, the president provided leadership to the nation’s government. Also, the separation of powers was created as the basic kind of government that…

On March 1, 1781, the Articles of Confederation was the first Constitution ever ratified, but due to its many failures, a replacement for a new Constitution needed to be developed. Created by the founding fathers, the Articles of Confederation was the first document that made in an attempt at creating a more structured union. This document’s purpose was to give states sovereign power, consequently, leaving Congress little to no power. Due to the new United States departing from of a trimmonila…

The articles of confederation is a written document that accepted the functions of the national government of the united states after it declared independence from great Britain. The articles of confederation was an agreement among the 13 colonies (original states), that served as its first constitution. The articles formed a wartime confederation of states, with a limited central government. The Constitutional Convention was made to examine and fix the weak government that remained under the…

The Article of Confederation had many weaknesses in its design, including no chief executive and no taxes. The Americans were afraid of having a strong central government because they just fought a war over it. So, they only had one branch of government with no head figure. The Congress’s power was limited so much that the states had way more power than the government did. This allowed each state to create a constitution that let them set laws and a government according to what each state wanted…

The Articles of Confederation gave more power to the states than the national government. For example, through the Articles of Confederation, the states were sovereign, there was no president/ independent member of the executive branch, there were no federal courts and it was the states’ responsibility to enforce all laws, Congress did not have the power to tax, Congress had no authority over commerce that was foreign or within the states, Congress consisted of one body and each state regardless…

Without Shays’ Rebellion, our nation's leaders would not have realized the problems The Articles of Confederation caused for the people. The leaders that realized this problem were George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They fixed this problem by starting the drafting of The Constitution at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Shay’s Rebellion was an important conflict caused by the government’s weak economic policy and led to the actual rebellion which then resulted in the…

Some of the most influential and pivotal articles written in our nation’s history that helped establish and ratify the U.S Constitution, were a series of documents written from 1787 to 1788 by some of the nation’s greatest historical figures. These archival documents written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison are known as the Federalist Papers. The Founding Fathers intended to write these 85 articles and essays with the sole purpose of influencing and urging citizens of the new…

The branches of government are an enormous part of our country's system, but it did not magically appear. Our founding fathers began the process of creating our government with the Articles of Confederation; that were created in 1781 by the Continental Congress. This was constructed so there would not be a strong national government because of the terror of tyranny. There were many complications; such as the states were very powerful and continually undermined the national government. This led…