Articles of Confederation: Perspective And Encounters

The Articles of Confederation needed to be replaced because it was created to keep the states independent from a national government. In the Articles of Confederation it stated "Its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right . . . not . . . expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled." It was created to pretty much let the states stay as independent as possible and keep a National government weak. The only thing was to make sure that security of liberties, common defense and general welfare were protected. The weakness of the Articles of Confederation were that each state only had one vote in congress, congress had no authority to tax, there was no national court system, there was no executive branch to enforce acts passed by congress as well as many other flaws. The Framers did not like how this was constructed so it took several years to correct and agree on the document. The framers decided that there was a need for a stronger federal government so they created the US Constitution to fix the problems that were in the Articles of Confederation. Some things that were changed or included were in the Articles of Confederation it has a Unicameral legislature, the Constitution has a Bicameral legislature divided into the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Articles of Confederation has between two and seven members per state in congress, in the Constitution there two senators per state with representatives apportioned according to the population of the state. There are also several other differences but in all both documents closely resemble each other. A lot of people thought that the Constitution was giving too much power to the National government and that it was no different than having a monarchy. I think people eventually accepted the Constitution because people saw how everything worked with a weak government and incidents like Shays rebellion made people realize that a need for a stronger