The Article of Confederation

After the Revolutionary War in America, the Articles of Confederation was adopted by the congress. It was aimed at creating a stable government. It gave the states the power to make their own laws. But Subquently, the confederation exercise limit power in dealing with its independent state. The passing of all bills required a unaimous vote, any amendment of the Article itself required the ratification of thirteen state. At the core of the new constitution was enduring conflict between a perpetual union and state sovereignty, never clearly resolved. The Confederation had no independent executive or judiciary, no federal power of taxation or raising revenue, no power to operate directly on individual citizens. The Confederation had to depend on the willingness of the states to comply with congressional requisitions, and the willingness of the state governments to enforce measures to secure American interests. Cause by America fear in the 1770s of a central and powerful government, as a first written constitution of the Republic, was a less effective government for the new nation, in which it wielded no constitutional power at all. Weak as it was, the Aricles of Confederation proved to be landmark and kept to inpire a establishment of tightly knit confederation.