Articles Of Confederation Analysis

The development of a new and ideal Nation in America did not come without events of trials and errors in the development of government and law apart from British rule. After drafting, Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. Ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781. The Article of confederation served as a constitution for the States and allowed the states to maintain most governmental power in an effort to create government dramatically different than that of the English rule. “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation
Federalists, most notably, Publius, argued it would be easier to protect liberty in a large and diverse republic.” (Keene, Cornell, & O’Donnell, 2013) Another fear and argument was that “Virginia’s George Mason, who was less concerned about the Constitution’s antidemocratic features and more worried about the centralization of power. Mason feared that liberty would be annihilated if a central government gained too much power.” (Keene, Cornell and O’Donnell, 2013). Ratification sparked some interesting publications and occasional acts of vandalism however the debate over ratification continued until, “June1788, when New Hampshire brought the total number of states that had approved the document to the required threshold of nine.” (Maier, 2010) difficulty now was getting anti-federalists to accept and abide by the new law.
It is believed that the success in ratification of the Constitution hangs on the success of The great Compromise which was a series of trial and errors itself, the system in which the senate would represent each state large or small including the black