Problems such as disunity, slavery, foreign/interstate relations, land disputes, and national debt led to the formation of the Articles of Confederation in 1777. ... The Articles of Confederation was finished in 1777, but was not completely ratified by all the colonies until 1781. Also known as America's first constitution, the Articles had no executive branch and a pitifully weak Congress. ... In conclusion, many of the problems that faced the nation in the post Revolutionary period led up to the Articles of Confederation, however weak and uncooperative. ... On May 25, 1787, fifty-f...

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The United States are the product of the failure of the articles of confederation. The founding fathers could have given up after the first attempt did not work, but instead they chose to pin point the weaknesses of the articles of confederation and perfect them. After living by the articles of confederation for half a decade, the states knew the Articles were not going to cut it. ... Constitution toward that end, rather than amend the Articles of Confederation....

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The American Revolution was not caused by any one act of the British, instead it was a culmination of many things. From the colonies being exploited economically by the British Empire to pay off its war debts, the British imposing more and more regulations on the colonies, to the ever diminishing, s...

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The Struggle for Democracy The word "democracy", originated from the Greeks, which meant "the people to rule." However, democracy in America is not as simple as "power to the people", but is actually a complicated system of government and politics. There are two forms of democracy, which are dir...

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Under both the Articles of Confederation, which had united the colonies during the Revolution, and the Constitution which joined the new states after 1787, the national government didn't have authorities to end slavery in any of the states (Hodges 1997). ...

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