The Articles served as a written constitution for the people to put down their ideas during the years 1781 to 1789 but was plagued by numerous complications. ... They were losing credibility as a nation because they couldn't pay back the other nations who had helped them in the Revolutionary War. ... During the Constitutional Convention, delegates agreed on created fundamental changes but conflicting interests of the states led to compromises which when presented to the states, a Federalist-Antifederalist battle for ratification ensued. ... The whole idea of the United States was not to ...

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