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The Articles of Confederation
There are several questions here, all relating to the different visions of the Constitution advanced, or at least implicit, in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the Supreme Court's decision...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the United States' first constitution. It was adopted on November 15, 1777 and ratified on March 1, 1781. The first constitution was written with little sentiment...
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The Articles of Confederation
I would say the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with a government that was effective enough to keep the country functioning in the short term, but not one that was effective...
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The Articles of Confederation
Article III of the Articles of Confederation is a promise made by the various states to defend one another and to be allies. What it is saying is that they will all help each other if any of them...
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The Articles of Confederation
The politicians responsible for framing the Constitution argued that the Articles of Confederation failed, essentially, because of the lack of a strong central government. The unicameral...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation affected relations with other countries. Once we became independent from British rule, we developed a plan of government called the Articles of Confederation. The...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were basically not effective for the purposes of establishing a new nation. However, they served as a starting point in the process of compromise that was necessary to...
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The Articles of Confederation
The US government under the Articles of Confederation lacked many important powers. Some of these were specific powers but others were more general. Generally, the national government simply...
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The Articles of Confederation
The major political concern reflected in this document, the first constitution of the US, was concern about a national government that would be too strong and would take rights away from the people...
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The Articles of Confederation
The United States faced an uncertain future with the establishment of a Federal Government in 1789. After the failure of the Articles of Confederation, much was riding on the experimental...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Congress under the Articles of Confederation was successful in accomplishing its goals. The first order of business was getting the country up and running. While there were definitely...
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The Articles of Confederation
After the Revolutionary War ended, we needed to develop a plan of government. That plan of government was called the Articles of Confederation. The American people were fearful of having a...
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The Articles of Confederation
Because the United States Congress did not originally possess the power to directly tax its citizens in order to raise revenue, a means of raising money through the sale of land was devised. The...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation failed because they did not give Congress and the national government enough power. The new United States just fought a war to end what they considered tyrannical...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, which really went into effect in 1781, was described at the time as a "firm league of friendship." It's most important characteristic was that it reserved most powers...
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The Articles of Confederation
There were several weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. One was that the government created by the Articles of Confederation was a very weak government. There was a huge concern about...
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The Articles of Confederation
As you indicate, there were many ways in which the Articles of Confederation set up a national government that was too weak. Two of the major limitations on the national government were that it A)...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation provided a somewhat effective form of government for the colonies. There are two major things that can be said to show that the Articles provided an effective form...
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The Articles of Confederation
First of all, please note that the Constitution did not get written until 1787 and was not ratified until 1788. Many of the challenges faced by the new United States in 1776 (such as how to win...
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The Articles of Confederation
They failed because they did not manage to convince the elites of society that their interests would be protected by the sorts of governments that sprang up under the Articles. During the time that...
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The Articles of Confederation
I think that since the Articles of Confederation were replaced, any potential strength would be overshadowed by its weaknesses. However, the Articles featured some distinct strengths that have to...
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The Articles of Confederation
The major issue that caused the American Revolution was the problem of the colonist being governed by another set of people who were too far removed from the colonists and who therefore did not...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was our first plan of government after the Revolutionary War. One success this plan of government had was in how it dealt with the organization and the sale of western...
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The Articles of Confederation
Generally (though it's a bit of a circular answer to say so) the biggest weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation was that it was too weak. The Articles simply didn't grant...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were, for the most part, ineffective in dealing with major national threats and issues of the time. Without the power to tax, they could not raise the revenue...
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The Articles of Confederation
The legislature set up by the Articles of Confederation was different than the legislature set up by the Constitution. In the Articles of Confederation, there was one house of Congress. Each state...
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The Articles of Confederation
The most important positive aspect of the Articles of Confederation is that they kept the new United States together through the Revolutionary War and the early years of the country. This is no...
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The Articles of Confederation
The colonists had their reasons for creating a weak central (federal) government under the Articles of Confederation. After fighting the Revolutionary War, the colonists were determined not to...
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The Articles of Confederation
The government that emerged through the Articles was one where state power was maximized. The autonomy of the states and the ability to not have any oversight or check from the federal government...
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The Articles of Confederation
The major error of the Articles of Confederation is that they made the national government too weak. It lacked, among other things, a way to tax and a way to regulate trade between the states or...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation created economic, administrative, and legislative weaknesses in the US government. These issues, while each distinct, were also interrelated, as they created a...
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The Articles of Confederation
There could be a few answers to this question. If you were referring to the United States of America, then the first written constitution would be the Articles of Confederation. After the colonists...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States. They were created in 1776 but were altered between then and when they were ratified in 1781. The most important...
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The Articles of Confederation
There were several significant accomplishments of the Articles of Confederation. One of the accomplishments was that is helped our country begin to govern itself after the Revolutionary War ended....
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the controlling document of the United States from 1781-1787. Initially approved by all states except Maryland in 1777, they did not take effect until March 1781....
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The Articles of Confederation
The biggest problem with the Articles of Confederation was that it gave too much powers to the individual states and did not enumerate enough powers to the federal government. The abuses of King...
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The Articles of Confederation
The system of government created as a result of the Constitutional Convention helped resolve some of the issues we faced while the Articles of Confederation was our plan of government. The main...
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The Articles of Confederation
Under the plan of government created by the Articles of Confederation, each state had one vote in Congress. The large states believed this practice was unfair because each voting representative...
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The Articles of Confederation
Under the Articles of Confederation, the US national government essentially consisted of the Continental Congress and nothing else. The Congress was responsible for all decision and for carrying...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States and were adopted by Congress on November 15 1777. Although their purpose was to bind and unite the colonies, the...
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The Articles of Confederation
I would argue that there were three main achievements of Congress under the Articles of Confederation. Two of them had to do with just getting the United States going as a country and a third had...
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The Articles of Confederation
Under the Articles of Confederation, state governments held most of the power. The preamble to the Articles described the government they formed as a "firm league of friendship," and this is more...
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were quite successful in a number of ways; although in the long run they proved too cumbersome to form a long term system of government. The Articles had several...
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The Articles of Confederation
After the Revolutionary War ended, the United States needed to develop a plan of government. The Articles of Confederation was the first plan of government we had after the Revolutionary War. Under...
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The Articles of Confederation
The plan of government created by the Articles of Confederation had strengths and weaknesses. It was the weaknesses that eventually led to a movement to replace this plan of government. The...
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The Articles of Confederation
As the name suggests, the Articles of Confederation established a confederation, a loose organization of mostly independent states with a very limited central authority. The Articles themselves...
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The Articles of Confederation
Hamilton's assessment of government under the Articles of Confederation is consistent with his Federalist views. He felt that the Articles' weakness was a lack of a strong central government....
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation created a very weak central government, with its powers vested in a single elective body, the Continental Congress. The government lacked an independent executive...
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The Articles of Confederation
The greatest failure of the Articles of Confederation was that it played on the fear and distrust of government that came as a result of the tyrannical abuses of King George III and the British...
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The Articles of Confederation
There are at least two ways to answer this. First, we can say that the Articles of Confederation were needed because a country needs to have a constitution. A country needs to have some set of...