Articles of Confederation

The beginings of our nations government through trial and error.

After the euphoria of a successful Revolution, the United States of America faced serious economic problems under the weak guidance of the Articles of Confederation. This essay illustrates how the Constitution solved these problems and saved America.

Nathaniel Gorham, a delegate from Massachusetts, was active in the leadership of our country and became the sixth President of the United States in Congress Assembled under the Articles of Confederation.

A 5 and a half page look at the failures of the Articles of Confederation.

If ya think the Constitution is weak, you'd scream at the Articles of Confederation.

This is a short commentary on how the Constitution saved America from collapse under the old Articles of Confederation.

The Articles of Confederation created a weak government. After the Critical Period, the need for a stronger government was made clear.

The sovereign states that signed and ratified the Articles were not friendly. They fought with each other and the Articles of Confederation could, by the states' own admission, do nothing to prevent the political carnage.

The essay examines weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

This is an article about the strengths of the Articles of Confederation.

How the United States revised the Articles of Confederation into the Constitution we have today.

This article outlines the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, the United States' first attempt at centralized government.

In this research paper, these two pivotal documents will be compared and contrasted in an effort to understand and appreciate them both.

An overview of the Articles of Confederation as the first government of the United States.

This article is about the history of the confederation.

America did not start with the original Constitution, it had to go through phases. One of the phases being known as the Articles of Confederation.

This article is intended to highlight just a few of the problems associated with the Articles of Confederation.

Unfortunately the Articles were not full proof and a few years later were replaced with the Constitution. The Constitution much more successfully fulfilled the goals of the American Revolution.

Although the Articles of Confederation provided for a central government, that central government was extremely weak and ineffectual...

In many positive ways, the Constitution was a radical departure from the Articles of Confederation and was produced specifically to mend the flaws of its predecessor.

The Articles of Confederation were drafted during the Second Continental Congress, which convened for a period of approximately seventeen months.

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the faults of the Articles of Confederation and the advantages of the U.S. Constitution

A comparison of the American Articles of Confederation and the American Constitution and how they spawned the first American political party system.

The influence of Thomas Paine's Common Sense is certainly evident in the writing of the Articles of Confederation, with both being an obvious reaction against the tyranny of an overbearing government.

This is the third in a series of articles providing an overview of how the structure of the federal government evolved. It covers the time period between the ratification of the Articles of Confederation and the drafting of the new Constitution.

The 1787 ratification of the Articles of Confederation. The 55 men who gathered in Philadelphia and changed America as we know it.

A look at the development behind the philosophies and writing of the Articles of Confederation.