Confederation Vs Constitution Dbq

The Articles of Confederation had a very limited government to start off with, they created the Land Ordinance of 1785, and they also created the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Constitutional Convention created the Great Compromise, three-fifths compromise, and they created the idea of a representative government and the Electoral college. The Debate over the Constitution had the argument whether someone should or should not be allowed to vote. If the Great Compromise never happened there might not be a decision or a standard on who gets to vote and whose votes count in the

The Articles of Confederation were the United State’s first constitution that was drafted in 1776 and set in motion a year later. The Articles of Confederation also known as “The Aoc”, ran the US government successful through the time of the American Revolution. However, the Aoc didn’t permit the national government with the power to levy taxes or regulate commerce, as a result of that all efforts at national cohesion was disheartened. So during the summer of 1787 they decided to create the “Supreme law of the land”, The Constitution. The constitution did everything the Aoc couldn’t do, it established more laws and provided increased federal authority while protecting the basic rights of it’s citizens.

Tensions were high in the united states during 1788. There were two sides as to what the union should do to move forward. After everybody realized that the Articles of Confederation isn’t going to be work for the country, there was a need for a plan. The plan was to get rid of the Articles of Confederation and replace it with the Constitution. There were many factors in the Constitution that hesitated people to ratify it. The main issue was that the new national government under the new constitution would have a lot more power than the one under the Articles of Confederation. Therefore, it created two different sides; people who wanted the ratification of the new constitution, or federalists, and those who does not, Anti-federalists. To convince the Anti-federalists to change their minds, federalists wrote a series of essays to convince them, known as the federalists’ papers. I agreed with the arguments expressed in the federalists’ papers.

The Articles of Confederation created many problems to the new government, after the Revolutionary War. It contained a weak national government and a strong state government. After the Revolutionary War, many colonists still feared Parliament and the monarchy they were once ruled by. Therefore, they created the Articles of Confederation with a weak national government and gave all the power to the states. But, many individuals did not favor the Articles of Confederation because it gave the states equal representations, no matter how big the state, and did not give the national government the ability to tax. Therefore, the ratifying of the Constitution took place. In this new Constitution, Framers wanted to create a new nation. With a separation of powers, and a new system of checks and balances between each branch. The new Constitution, expelled all of the problems within the Articles of Confederation. But, it did not include the secure liberties that the colonists had fought for. Therefore, the Bill of Rights was proposed in order to secure our blessings of liberty and to ensure that the colonists will never chant, “no taxation without representation,” ever again.

Compared to the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation had a weak national government. The Articles of Confederation couldn’t force taxes or had any control over interstate commerce. The Articles of Confederation also didn’t have any standing armies. In comparison, the Constitution had the supreme law of the land. Congress could collect taxes, regulate commerce, and conduct diplomacy. And there was no more cornage. With the Constitution came Federalism. There was separation of power between three branches. The three branches are the Judicial, Executive, and Legislative Branch. There was also a shared power between states. With the Constitution, we also acquired a president. The president would be the executor of the laws and manages

The articles of confederation were the first agreement and first constitution of the United States. The articles of confederation had many flaws which made it more weak than strong. The articles of confederation were a written document the defined the structure of the government from the years 1781 to 1788, under which the union was a confederation of equal states, with no executive leader or power, the articles of confederation were made to mainly to foster a common defense. Now, there were two political groups. There were the federalists who were supporters of the constitution of 1787, which would create a strong central government. them opposes were the anti-federalists, they felt that a powerful and distant central government would not

The Article of Confederation was our first form of government. The Article of Confederation had a couple of weaknesses, the federal government could not tax and there was no executive branch leader. The weaknesses lead to the Continental Convention. The government want to fix these weaknesses. The Federalist believed in a strong central government with most of the power giving the states little power and the Anti- Federalist believed in a weak central government and believed that the states should have more power. The Anti-federalist at the convention knew they were losing the battle for a weak government so they ask for the bill of rights to be added into the constitution, in order to protect the american citizens rights. To balance

The Articles of Confederation did not allow the national government to force their laws on states. They could coin and borrow money but did not have the power to tax. In that time, Congress lacked the strength and leadership to lead the nation. No form of a national military existed. The Supreme Courts did not exist at the national level. Each state had their own economic revenue. Last but not least, each state can issue their own tariffs on goods coming from another state. Soon after, the idea of the articles began failing America and the Second Continental Congress occurred. Officials gathered together and made the Constitution. After countless reforms added to the Constitution, people were still not happy because it did not represent the

The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia during the spring and summer of 1787, and was charged with replacing the Articles of Confederation with a more effective constitution. The Articles were widely considered an ineffective governing document. Our nation had two constitutions. Although the Articles of Confederation weakened our government, the current Constitution strengthened our central government and established our country to where we are today.

The Articles of Confederation provided a good establishment for the government to set rules. Eventually the Articles of Confederation wasn’t working anymore to keep the colonies under control. The colonies didn’t agree with the way the Articles of Confederation set the rules. All of the states only had ones vote no matter how big or small they were. This was a big deal for them because out of the 13 colonies Virginia had the biggest population and Delaware had the smallest. So when Delaware got its one vote it would account for a good majority of the people. But when Virginia got its one vote it was unfair because that one vote had to represent all of those people. So, because of the unfairness and the complaints the people of the thirteen colonies go rid of the Articles of Confederation and replaced it with the Constitution. The larger states wanted votes based on population but the smaller states wanted one vote per state. So the constitution helps solve this problem. It made a law that everyone would have the same amount of votes. The Articles of Confederation weakness influenced the constitution because of the way the Articles of Confederation failed. So the people in the thirteen colonies decided to make a better system and create the

Although the Articles of the Confederation became known as the United States’ first written constitution, it did not became ratified by all states until after four years after it was adopted and only lasted for 12 years until it was later replaced with the Constitution we used today. The Articles did set a foundation for our modern day constitution but in its early stages posed serious problems that lead to the drafting of a new constitution. Some of those problems included vesting the entire central government within just Congress (lack of Executive, and Judicial Branch), giving central government very limited power on how it handled state to state affair, and lack of national army because the army was composed of state militias. The articles

“Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.” (U.S. Articles of Confederation, Article II) This article reflected the resent that the newly independent colonists held for the British Monarch. Hatred of autocratic rule and central power forced the drafters of the government’s template to enact a weak national government, without both judicial and executive branches. The absence of these two powers in the government made it nearly impossible for Congress to enforce acts, leading to states taking actions that only directly benefitted themselves, especially financially. (Kelly) Instead of creating an era of national pride following the recent victory in the Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation helped create a of extreme state pride and desire for sovereignty. The Constitution, on the other hand, effectively addresses the lack of central strength in the first and second articles. Article II creates an executive branch, led by the president, that is composed of central departments with the ability to enforce policy established by Congress and the president himself. (US Const. art. II) Article III establishes a national judicial branch with supreme power over state courts. The courts have the power to interpret

The Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, was adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. However, sanction of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781. The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, which resulted in most of the power residing with the state governments. The need for a stronger Federal government soon became apparent and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The present United States Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation on March 4, 1789 (Researchers,

The Articles of Confederation made for a confederation of independent states. The State governments had most of the power. It made for friendships between states and a process to cooperate together if they needed to fight a foreign enemy. Congress had little power over the states.

After reading the articles of Confederation and the constitution, I found the main difference between them is the change of federal government’s power. In the articles of Confederation, most power still in the state government’s hand, for example in the reading article 2 “each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence” this means the state still retain nearly all the power, it is still a pretty much an individual country, but in the Constitution judges in every state must judge based on the supreme law.