The colonial delegates met in Philadelphia to plan a better form of government after the Articles of Confederation.
The Articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constitution because it included the Bill of Rights.
The branches of government did not have an equal share in power.
The Articles of Confederation was drafted and hence acted as a central government until the end of the revolutionary war.
the Continental Congress
In the first continental congress delegates decided to boycott all british goods so no colonial goods were shipped and no british good were taken in and they also created a list of grievances In the second continental congress the delegates decided to make a document listing all of America's independence from Britain
The Articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constitution because it included the Bill of Rights.
The branches of government did not have an equal share in power.
The articles of confederation gave almost no power to the federal government. They had to ask the states to get anything done. It was not working for building a country. They met and created the US Constitution.
The Articles of Confederation was drafted and hence acted as a central government until the end of the revolutionary war.
Under the Articles of Confederation, states were allowed to have their own armies, much as the individual colonies had their own colonial militias.
Philadelphia
philadelphia
The name of the first US government was "The United States of America", the same as it is today, even though the first government was organized under the Articles of Confederation. Article 1 of the Articles of Confederation says: "The Stile [sic] of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America."The first US government after the Revolutionary War was actually founded during the war. It passed the North West ordinance, solving the problem of establishing the borders between the states and what to do about the lands in the western parts of the United States.It established the government survey that originated a grid pattern of dividing farmland used in most of the nation apart from the original 13 states.
Well the Virginia General Assembly started in 1619. That would make it the oldest lawmaking body in colonial America.
the Continental Congress
Several were set up. The Declaration of Independence was done there, the articles of confederation, and the constitution.
Britain / England ruled all citizens without representation in Colonial America. The British had (have still) a monarchy. With the American Revolution, citizens fought for Independence from Britain, in part to end having no representation. The form of government that the Articles of Confederation established, and the US Constitution further defined and clarified, was a Republic form of government.