Differences Between the Aoc and the Constitution
The government that our country operates under in modern times is quite different than the government in place at our country’s conception. However, they do share many of the same practices and ideologies. The Articles of Confederation were founded on the basis of a very limited national government, and the idea that states should interact with each other through a “loose league of friendship”. In this friendship, the states would work and trade together, but no form of central government was needed. This system was not nearly sufficient for the nations problems at the time. Recognizing the need for a reform, the nations leaders tried to reform the current system, and with little success, the decision was made that they should start from scratch and create a government that they believed to be the saving grace for America. This new creation was known as the Constitution. Thought to be a more comprehensive and equal system of government, The Articles of Confederation were written by the Continental Congress in an effort to unify the 13 independent and sovereign states into the “United States of America.” The Articles were completed in the late summer of 1777, and were adopted later that year in November. The United States went by this system, without it being ratified, until it was finally ratified on March 1, 1781. With the final ratification, the Articles set forth rules regarding the powers given to, and withheld from the federal government. The power to declare war on other countries, resolving the conflicts with the Western territories, and dealing with any other diplomatic issues that may arise were all powers that were given to the national government. The Articles of Confederation severely hindered the ability of the federal government, while allowing the states’ governments to nearly do as they pleased. The federal government was not permitted to collect taxes from the states, to raise a national military, to regulate interstate or foreign