What set of laws governed America before the constitution was approvd in 1788?

The Articles of Confederation

Article of Confederation

The document that governed the United States before The Constitution was The Articles of Confederation. ...

The Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation 1781 came before The Constitution 1791

By state governments. The downfall to this type of government is that all of the colonies were weak because of it. ...

Before the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation established a weak confederacy up until 1789. The states retained sovereignty overall governmental functions and representative from each state had only one vote no matter the size of the state. It was also unable to levy taxes and had a weak executive branch. ...

articles of confederation

Prior to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, there were the Articles of Confederation, the new country's first written constitution. Ratified in March 1781, this document remained in use till 1789. Of course, prior to the US declaring its independence, the country was a British colony, governed by British law, and subject to the whims of the King of England. ...

The articles of confederation were in place before the constitution was made if that's what you mean. They were replaced by the constitution because they were weak. ...

The colonies were governed by state government.

UK governed India and Pakistan before independance.

Right after the Revolutionary War, before we had the Constitution, America was governed underneath the Articles of Confederation. They were, however, weak. In addition to having no power to tax, they couldn't raise up an army and needed all 13 states' agreement for any amendment. ...

Yes he was but it was before America became united under the constitution  ...

The '''Articles''' of '''Confederation''' was the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. ...

The Government of Ireland was created by the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. Before this the Executive Council of the Irish Free State governed the country from 1922 - 1937. ...

They were governed by Great Britain, the Tyrant -_-

The U.S. Constitution was a document that was used in early Colonial America, also known mainly as the thirteen colonies, to pass laws in America before the American Revolution. It is still used today by the supreme court to pass laws. ...

Before the Cuban Revolution, Cuba was a constitutional republic, governed by the Constitution of 1940, widely regarded as a very progressive constitution for that time. Following the coup d'état by Fulgencio Batista in 1952, parts of the constitution were suspended. Prior to seizing power, Fidel Castro and his group of revolutionaries claimed, in the Manifiesto de la Sierra Maestra, that one of their goals was to reinstate the Constitution of 1940. Once in power, the revolutionaries reneged on their promise and abrogated the...

they went on the other side

The Articles of Confederation were established before the Constitution

Before the constitution the document that governed the govt was the Articles of confederation plus the Bills of rights (The ten amendments) (they protect the basic rights of Americans). ...

The British governed with little supervision of the American colonies before 1760. Britain's harsh tax and trade policies of the 1760s fanned resentment in the colonies. ...

There have been numerous groups who have governed the territory of the Mandate of Palestine before Israel's Declaration of Statehood. The most recent prior to Israel was the United Kingdom. The British governed the Mandate of Palestine as a Mandate from 1919 until 1948. ...

Before. Because it was the USA's first constitution.