I am not sure what you mean by "free riding." So it is impossible to answer the question.
If it was never made we might not have a free country. We would not be in a democracy.
One thing that is true about the Congress under the Articles of Confederation is that the Congress was mandated to maintain an army and navy.
The Articles created a league of free and independent states with a limited national government. In 1776, they represented the first agreement among the separate colonies to become a union of states.
"... free inhabitants... shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states..."
I'm not sure 'saved' is the best word. The form of government was changed by instituting the Constitution in place of the Articles of Confederation. Under the AoC, the states were more free to govern themselves; under the Constitution, states were now expected to obey certain national laws.
Congress pass laws allowing for free passage between states
Richard Henry Lee
Free Confederation of Chadian Workers was created in 1991.
The Articles of Confederation were created as the plan of government for the new United States after the Revolutionary War. Because the states had just fought a war to free themselves from a strong government, they decided to create a much weaker government for themselves. In the Articles of Confederation, the federal government had very few powers and the state governments ruled the new country. After Shays' Rebellion in Massachusetts, the Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia to create the Constitution. The early Americans realized that a weak government was not going to hold them together.
At this point, the US had just broken free from the control of England. They feared a powerful government, so they enacted the Articles of Confederation. This basically said that the country was a loose association of the states, and the federal government had little or no power. Several instances where federal power was needed, such as Shay's Rebellion, proved that a stronger form of government was needed.
The synonym for free-riding is "freeloading."
They met in Philadelphia because they wanted to revise the weakened Articles of Confederation. Instead they ended up re-writing the Constitution.