Essay On The Articles Of Confederation

In November 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union—the United States’ first written constitution. The Articles of Confederation formed a constitution concerned primarily with limiting the powers of the central government; however, the central government was based entirely on Congress. At the time, there was no executive branch because they wanted to limit the government and not have it too powerful. This meant that the execution of its laws would be left to the states. Despite the fact that the central government was based entirely in Congress, Congress had little power. The members of Congress were delegates chosen by the legislature, who were paid by the state treasuries. In addition to all
Other weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation was it could not regulate commerce, impose taxes, each state was sovereign and only given one vote in Congress and lastly nine of thirteen votes were required to pass any measure.

Although there were many negatives to the Articles, there were a few positives Congress had the power to bring tranquility, coin money, allocate key army officers even though the army was small and consisted mainly of state militias, and Congress ran the post office.
The shift from the Articles of Confederation of the United States Constitution was not a consistent one, and altering the issues of the Articles of Confederation required a progression of extensive civil arguments both in the midst of and after the tradition. Be that as it may, one thing was sure, something must be changed. The Federalists trusted that the Constitution as it stood. On the other hand, the Anti-Federalists asserted the Constitution without a Bill of Rights the people would be oppressed. From the laws we have now I trust that the Anti-Federalists fulfilled their objective with the constitution; be that as it may, the national government still keeps up its power on the grounds that the Federalists were supporting a more grounded focal