Pros And Cons Of The Articles Of Confederation

After the Revolutionary War, it was determined that the current lack of government was a problem.  Therefore, in 1777 the Articles of Confederation was established. A government system was needed to establish the authority of the Continental Congress. Once the document was created it was displayed to the individual states. It was mandatory that all states agreed to the Articles of Confederation before the rules could be placed into action. The idea of the article was that the states would own and control the majority of their own government regulations. Most people feared the control of a single power government system, therefore, the federal government held little power. The federal government quietly served as a common ground for representatives

Before America was established, it was a colony run by the most powerful country at that time- England, and though with its pros, the cons largely outweighed their benefits. The colonist felt that the king of England was a tyrant and did not respect even the most basic human rights of his citizens across the Atlantic ocean. A tyrant is a single person or group with too much power over their people- someone who can easily abuse power and can ultimately get away with anything they desire, which was horrible for the american colonists. When the U.S. broke away from England and was its own nation, our founding fathers wrote the Articles of Confederation, our first constitution, which weakened the federal government to the point where it could not function as it should’ve been able to in order to manage the nation and all the power was given to the states

After the U.S. gained independence from G.B., they followed their first constitution. It was called the Articles of Confederation. Many people did not agree with the constitution. They did not like that every state was equal and got one vote. Northern states and Southern states had different human and geographic features. The Northern states had a larger population and so they did not like the rule that every state got one vote. Populated states wanted representation to be based upon population. However this lead to another debate on whether we should count slaves as part of a state’s population. Overall, states were fighting over who had power in the government.

The Articles of Confederation is a document which was created prior to the United States Constitution or the Bill of Rights. The Articles of Confederation had strengths and weaknesses just like any other official doctrine created for the foundation of the United States. Some of those weaknesses lead to fights within many states, which made people rethink the efficiency of the document and the rights recorded within it. One of the weaknesses it that Congress had no power to tax the people, or the goods that they produced. Some people may think that it is a good thing, but without the ability to tax, the United States was in debt to the countries it had borrowed money from to fund the American Revolution. One piece of

The Articles of Confederation was a document signed amongst the thirteen original colonies that established the United States of America as a union of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. The Articles of Confederation did little to promote colonial unity, therefore independence was granted to 13 new nations, all of which became weak from lack of central government. In the Great Debate the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists debated the inclusion of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution as this allowed to make a compromise to govern our country. The Constitution that is now shaping modern America would have never been formed without first evolving from the flawed Articles of Confederation.

The articles were written in such a manner that they were destined to fail. They lacked the power needed to establish a executive and judicial branch of governments and any authority they contained was belonged solely to the Congress. According to the Articles each colony had only vote and per the Articles each state appointed their representative and paid their salary. The Articles of Confederation lacked the power to levy taxes on state’s or their residents.

It took guts, determination, and patriotism for America to separate from Britain and support themselves independently. With limited time to map out political authority, America’s heroes joined together and crafted the Articles of Confederation to completely kick out Britain. The Articles were able to last for several years, until natives discovered the weaknesses of Congress and communication between the states. Trade was slowed, taxation was irrelevant, and foreign policy seemed to be avoided because Congress was denied these responsibilities in fear of turning tyrannical. It was obvious the United States was on a crash course for failure, and someone needed to tackle the responsibility of reuniting the country.

Created on November 1777, the Articles of Confederation was America’s first constitution. A constitution is a written list of laws and plans for government. There were many strengths and weaknesses of the articles. A primary strength was that the states could control trade with other countries. Instead of going through Britain, the middle man was cut out and the states could trade with foreign countries directly. Another strength was that unlike in the past, congress could now maintain armed forces. When the colonists’ were under Britain’s reign, the colonists’ had the British soldiers to protect them. However, now as one country the colonists can maintain their own army and navy. Despite the strengths, the Articles of Confederation had

The Articles of Confederation is the first "constitution" for the United States. In lesson, it goes into more detail about how 13 thirteen single colonies became one to make decisions. The United States was the first nation in the history of the world to be created by colonial people fighting against their mother country for freedom. The United States government at the time was similar to England's. The people whom lived in America wanted a democratic republic, just without all the kings and queens. This type of government has never been seen before, thus America will be creating its own version and testing it out. The Articles that they had previously created had some issues. One issue is who owned the land in the west? Better yet, how were

The Articles of Confederation were created as a loose binding of the colonies whilst they declared their independence from Britain, the document in itself worked well on paper, but when applied to an expanding nation that needed more intensive unification and strategic organization, the articles failed greatly. It didn’t build the internal systems that call for the calculated and precise decisions of a country. However, the Articles of Confederation provided a basis for the Constitution, to which is the basis of American government today.

The Articles of Confederation was the first document that would establish the rules of the United States government after the American Revolution. Due to the Articles of Confederation being the first document to establish these rules, it would have many flaws, and would eventually was unable to express its full ambitions. After many reviews, the Constitution would be ratified and it would overrule the Articles of Confederation as the supreme law of the land, due to the be seen as inadequate. The Articles of Confederation would have many strengths, but the weaknesses of the document would overall make the Articles of Confederation a document that fact that it would support the needs of the United States (its people and states) more so than

The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States. Due to the country being so new the Articles were not able to handle the country. It gave the states too much power not allowing for a strong national government. Without the strong national government, it was unable to organize the economy, have an effect central leadership, and an efficient legislature. This inevitably lead to its replacement with the Constitution.

The Articles of Confederation established the first government that unified the thirteen states that fought in the American Revolution. This documented created the structure for the confederation of the 13 states and went into effect on March 1, 1781 and lasted only eight years. The purpose of the document was to create a confederation of where each state kept its own sovereignty. Every state had its own independence as much as possible while the central government of the U.S. was only responsible for the common defense, the security of liberties, and the general welfare of the states. The purpose of the document was to keep the national government as weak as possible. However, this led to several issues to become apparent once the Articles was put into effect.

The Articles of Confederation was the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. The Articles provided a system for the Continental Congress to direct the American Revolutionary War, conduct diplomacy with Europe and deal with territorial issues and Native American relations. The articles was supposed to be a legislative body serving as the nation’s executive rather than a parliament. It had full power over foreign affairs and questions of war and peace, it could decide disputes between the states, and it had authority over coinage, the postal service, and Indian affairs as well as the western territories. Nevertheless, the weakness of the government created by the Articles became a matter of concern for the American nation. The articles had no courts and no power to enforce its resolutions and ordinances. It also had no power to levy taxes and had to rely on requisitions from the states, which state legislatures could ignore. The articles didn’t have an executive or judicial branch of government, nor did it have an administrative head of government, and there were no federal courts (Shi &Tindall, 2013, P.239).

The Articles of Confederation was one of the first official documents of the United States. The purpose of this article was to create a confederation of states whereby each state retained its sovereignty, freedom, and independence. Every state was as independent as possible with the Federal government only responsible for the common defense, security of liberties, and the general welfare. There were several problems that soon became obvious with time, as the Articles took effect. The Articles contained more weaknesses than strengths which let the authority to get rid of them and create a new document.