How Did The Articles Of Confederation Replace The Constitution?

INTRODUCTION Various types of governments such as Monarchy’s, Confederations, Oligarchy’s and even Dictatorships haven’t had the same successes as the United States Government. With both Democratic and Republic features the U.S Government created the first Constitutional Federal Republic. This has allowed the states to self-govern, and the power of the Country lies with the U.S Government. According to Cornell Law Schools Encyclopedia In order to restrict the Government from abusing its powers a “Political doctrine of constitutional law” known as the Separation of Powers, which separated the government into three branches (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial). During this research essay topics such as The Federalist Papers, The Constitution,
This Constitution was meant to replace the “Articles of Confederation” which frightened a lot of people because they thought it may give the Government a tyrannical type power. However, James Madison saw a different issue that was leading to the overall downfall of the Articles of Confederation which he expressed in an article he wrote in 1787 called the “Vices Of The Political System Of The United States”. James Madison not only mentioned the “evil” in the Confederacy but also brought up the unproductiveness of the Government by saying “its inability to collect requisitions and to prevent the states from encroaching on its authority, violating treaties, and violating the rights of each other; its lack of control over commerce; and in general its lack of coercive power” (in layman’s terms he called them weak). JM’s description of the Confederates was almost poetic and resonated throughout the Federalist. Two of the most important Federalist article’s known today would be (Fed No.10 and Fed No.51) which were also written by James Maddison. James Maddison speaks heavily about “faction” which means “a small, organized,
Maddison says in No.10 “By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community” He truly believed that there was no way to remove factions since “Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.” So, instead of removing it he asks if a smaller republic is better than a