Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation were adopted to form a bond between the thirteen colonies and to convince France that they were capable to govern themselves.
However the Articles only loosely linked the thirteen states together. There was no executive power, because they wanted to avoid someone such as Gorge III from gaining power at all cost. There were many insufficient things about the government one was that every state had one vote no matter how many people lived in it. The amount of taxes states were expected to pay did not take in consideration how much land the state consisted of, which caused many complaints. It also did not give the central government much power or protection at all, which made it mostly ineffective. But the Articles had to be free and very open, in order to make all the states agree, even then it took four years to get Maryland to agree to it. In any case the Articles of Confederation were an important and necessary step, because they laid the foundation for a republic by “outlining the general powers that were to be exercised by the central government”(p. 173).