Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation did not give Congress the power to tax. As a result, Congress could only ask the individual states for donations to support their activities.

the aoc were ineffective. they gave too much power to the states.

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All 13 states had to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

The convention beginning on May 25, 1787, was referred to as the Phildelphia Convention or the Grand Convention, but because it actually led to the replacement of the Articles with a new Constitution, it is usually called the Constitutional Convention.

The states had more power than the national government

wrote a new constitution

The states of Delaware,

Massachusetts,

New York,

Virginia,

Maryland,

Pennsylvania,

New Hampshire,

Georgia,

North Carolina,

South Carolina,

Rhode Island,

Connecticut, and

New Jersey

Congress itself created and appointed executives, judges, and military officers. It also had the power to make war and peace, conduct foreign affairs, and borrow and print money. But Congress could not collect taxes or enforce laws drectly; it had to rely on the states to provide money and enforce its laws.

denied-the right for a state to print it's own money

they accomplished that a new law that everyone can make there own cake without permission.

it was to make sure that they kept the votes private so they kept the windows closed and guards to cut the public out.

Under the Articles of Confederation the American colonists fought and defeated Great Britain and gained independence. By the end of the "Confederation era," Congress had created a bureaucracy to administer the day-to-day affairs of the government. The issue over the western lands was solved under the Articles. The large states holding vast amounts of western land ceded the land to the government under the Articles so that all the states could share in the wealth of those lands. The Northwest Ordinances were passed that provided for the creation of equal, self governing states in the Northwest Territories and the newly created states would have the same rights and privileges as the original 13 states. Congress also provided for a survey of the western lands to prepare the land for sale to all. Under the Articles, the states were held together until a new government under the Constitution was created. The new nation began to emerge as one respecting the ideas that had caused the Revolutionary War in the first place.

The short answer would be approximately 1776-1789 or 1777-1789, depending on how you choose to view it.

The Articles were drafted in 1776 and approved by the Continental Congress in 1777 but ratification by all the states was not complete until 1781 - 2 years before the end of the Revolutionary War. Although drafted in 1776, it really didn't start serving as the constitution until it was approved in 1777 and although not yet ratified, was the defacto constitution starting in that year.They continued to serve as the constitution of the USA until they were superseded by what we now know as THE US Constitution. The Constitution was approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787. The first ratification by a state was December 7, 1787 by Delaware. The last state to ratify was Rhode Island on May 29, 1790. Elections were held according to the new Constitution but done under the supervision of the government established by the Articles. The new government began operating as such March 4, 1789. On that day the Articles ceased to be the constitution.

they just fricken did

Yes . True

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States caused economic chaos by making independent trade agreements with foreign countries, so the Constitution gave the federal government the power to regulate trade and foreign policy.

... because most Americans were afraid of giving government too much power like the king of Britain or Parliament.

the articles of confederation gave the national government no right to regulate trade or enforce taxes. Therefore, the states established taxes against each other to protect producers within their own state, etc., and the national government had little revenue for other purposes, such as common defense.

The framers of these articles wanted a very weak central Government. The Articles of Confederation were the first attempt at this setup. These set up a very weak central Government that separated us from England. It turns out that these were too weak to Govern adequately. As a result 55 of our founding leaders met to hammer out a breathing document that could be updated and yet was weak enough to allow freedom of (not from) religion and other basic freedoms.

The issue has been keeping our freedoms and still having a workable Government. The founding fathers realized that any Government tends to become self growing and stifles freedom of it's citizens through providing for it's people. The fathers realized that there was no free lunch. People are sometimes willing to give up their freedoms for very short term gain. Freedom of traveling in place of the fear of being hurt while traveling or losing your ability to care for yourself in the manner you wish in exchange for "free" health care for young people are two great examples. Balancing these issues is the trick of our ability to amend the Constitution..

Daniel Shay's Rebellion proved that the Articles of Confederation was not enough for peacetime. George Washington was very concerned as were many other American leaders. The Articles of Confederation only allowed for troops for times of war, not for domestic disturbances. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote about the needs of the federal government in the Federal Papers that were published in newspapers of the time.

People just had come out of the War for Independence, and the war was about taxation with out representation, so people at the time didnt want to pay taxes and hated big government so they hardly gave it any power, one of those powers that they didnt give it was to collect tax. Instead they had to ask the states. Even if the states did pay, the money was worthless, because they were just printing it and had nothing to back the note up....