The Constitution of Yesterday and Today.
The Articles of Confederation was a document, which served the United States from 1781 to 1789. It was a loose organization of thirteen independent states joined together with equal representation in Congress in order to provide for the common defense. The articles proved too week to effectively govern the young nation. Scheduled to beg in on May 14, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Constitutional Convention progressed through the summer to establish a new form of government. Although the convention was called for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, Delegates expressed an overwhelming interest in a new and stronger form of central government. American citizens had made commitment in the thirteenth article stating they were now being asked to abandon: .
"The Articles of Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration of any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the United States, and be afterward confirmed by the legislature of every state." .
Article seven of the constitution indicates that the document would officially go into effect upon the ratification of nine and thirteen sate ratifying conventions. Upon ratification of the United States Constitution, in 1789, this agreed upon a form of government put into effect, and has operated as the government of the United States ever since. .
How was such a concept imagined? The Philadelphia proposal was intended for a fresh start. If it had any chance for adoption, it must risk a procedure more democratic than any other young republic had yet seen. This meant an extensive amount of persuasion to propose such a radical plan. The Federalist Papers discusses the editorials and persuasion pieces written by the Founding Fathers to create the democracy of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches that guide the lives of Americans today.
