How The Constitution Overcame The Weaknesses Of The Articles Of Confederation
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How the U.S. Constitution overcame the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was written during the era of the American Revolution. The Articles of Confederation established the first organizational structure that joined the thirteen states that battled during the American Revolution. The new founded freedom of colonial America reflected in the articles of confederation, as they feared of a powerful national government, the Articles gave the individual states more power than the national government. The Articles created a government that had no executive branch, were not able to tax, control trade, or establish national money, this made the national government as weak as possible because they believed it was more effective to have governmental power localized. In other words, states acted like self-governing countries. As a result…show more content… While under the Articles, the states constantly argued among themselves and because the national government was crippled by the Articles they were powerless to enforce acts because all decisions of importance required an undisputed vote which led to a government that was extremely incompetent. The government also had no financial support from the other states which made the economy very unstable. It became clear that the Articles needed to be scrapped and a completely new constitution creating a federal government with more specific control was needed to build a stronger national government to deal with trade, economic problems and a feeble military. As more states became interested in meeting to change the Articles, 55 representatives were chosen from the states to meet in Philadelphia and begin work on establishing a new Constitution for the United States, this meeting is known as today as the Constitutional Convention. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention met between May and September of