Why did the Constitution of the United Stats replace the Articles of Confederation and how did the Constitution address the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?.
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The history of our country and the way that we operate as citizens today begins long ago. The Articles of Confederation were wri .
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Times were tough and the colonists felt that their natural rights were being violated by the King and Parliament. The citizens did not like the idea of taxation without representation. They felt that the very freedoms of life were being taken away from them. The quartering of soldiers was a direct violation of people's homes and privacy. The fact that one could be tried without a jury if caught without the right stamps on their goods seemed, and was, unjust. The colonists were not going to stand for their freedoms being snatched from them any longer they were going to break away from England. It was time to make a new government. Government is created by consent of the people and there was more than enough consent. The first acting government was called the Second Continental Congress. The Second Continental Congress was created out of necessity. It had a weak central government because change was needed and a strong central government would have reminded the colonists of the King. It was stated that each state would write their own constitution. This way the states were responsible for governing themselves. In this congress, they had the power to organize for war, or in other words, create an army. They congress made treaties with France so that they were a much larger power in the war. The Second Continental Congress was written down and became the first written constitution: The Articles of Confederation. .
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The Articles of Confederation had been created as a Confederate form of government. This meant that it was an alliance of independent states. Each state was sovereign in a Confederate government.