The Articles Of Confederation: Success Or Failure?

The Articles of Confederation were debated over for sixteen months before they adopted it in 1777. It was not until March 8,1881 that the last colony agreed with it. At the beginning each state had its own power, and the government had no control over the colonies. So they could do whatever they want and the government could not stop them.

There is a very long list of reasons that the Articles of Confederation failed and here is some of them: Congress did not have the power to tax, there was not a national court system,no matter what size,big or small, only had one vote, and Congress did not have the power to control foreign and between state commerce. Those were not all of the reasons but most of them.