The Articles of Confederation
Articles of the Confederation.
After the Colonies declared independence from England, the new country needed a document to describe the structure of the new government. The first of these governing documents was The Articles of Confederation, which was ratified in 1781. Because The Articles proved to be unsuccessful at governing the US as needed, the Constitutional Convention met in 1787 to discuss revising The Articles. Eventually, a completely new document, The Constitution, is written and ratified in 1788.
"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"
The agreement made by the original 13 states in 1777 establishing a confederacy to be known as the United States of America; replaced by the Constitution of 1788, the first constitution of the 13 American states, adopted in 1781 and replaced in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States.
The Articles of Confederation was the document that was ratified in 1781. This document established a confederation of sovereign states.
The document needed to be ratified by a unanimous vote of all thirteen colonies. The first state to ratify was Virginia on December 16, 1777. It did not become a binding document to legally establish the union of the states until March 1, 1781, when Maryland finally ratified the document.
The Articles of Confederation served as America's first 'constitution.' The document was ratified by all thirteen states by 1781, but it was replaced in 1789.
That would be the Articles of Confederation.
Articles of confederation
Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
They were ratified in 1781, and were replaced by the constitution in 1787.
The Articles of Confederation. They were put into action in 1781.
The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, the first form of central US government, were approved by the states in 1781, but proved too weak to be workable. The US Constitution replaced the Articles in 1787.