Articles Of Confederation Flaws

Not everything is done correct the first time around. Surprisingly, this is also true for America’s national government. The Articles of Confederation was the constitution of the United States for the first few years of its existence, however, it had many flaws that jeopardized said existence. These flaws included but are not limited to the fact that the national government didn't have the power to tax the states, it couldn't enforce its own laws, but rather only create them, no national currency, however each state had its own currency, a national army could be put in place, and the same goes for a national court. The voting process for each state was also an issue since each state only received one vote which was not fair to

To solve the national government's issue of not being able to tax the states, the legislative branch was created so that it could make laws, such as the power to tax. The legislative branch also resolved each state having its own form of money by creating a national currency. Both of these resolutions are mentioned in article one section 8. This same article and section also allow congress to raise armies. Instead of requiring and unanimous vote from all of the states to amend the government, the fifth article of the constitution only requires two thirds of either the states or both houses in order to amend the government. Before the constitution was ratified, the Articles only possessed a legislative body which could only make laws and not enforce them. To counteract this, executive power, or the power to enforce laws, was given to the executive branch in article two section one. The national court is created in article three where judicial power is given to the Supreme Court and all inferior courts. Finally, the bicameral legislature made it so that representation in the lower house of congress was based on population and in the upper house, each state received two votes. Thus, the system is more fair to both large and small