The Problems With The Articles Of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation, which were ratified in 1781, created the first form of federal government, named the Articles of Confederation. In 1787, a convention was called to revise the Articles of Confederation due to the Articles creating a weak central government, which gave states more power over the central government. Alexander Hamilton wanted a strong central government, which led him to envision Congress calling a convention to revise the Articles. The two detrimental problems of the Articles of Confederation were that the federal government had too little power and could not take action without 9/13 states approval, which is 70% of the total states. Furthermore, the other detrimental problem with the Articles of Confederation is not being able to enforce laws, they made the federal government so weak that they couldn’t even enforce laws amongst themselves. After this, the founding fathers had to make major changes, or else this wouldn’t lead the U.S. down the correct path. They wanted to rewrite the Articles of

Given how diverse the states are, it is near impossible for them to agree to an action without some sources of conceiving and agreement. Consequently, this problem would also lead to more problems with the existing gap in the Articles of Confederation. With any rebellions or revolts, the government simply had no control over them, it was just the states that had any control over the rebellions. Reflecting back on the events of Shays’ rebellion, the government didn't have the power to enforce a national guard, so they just watched the rebellion happen and couldn’t do anything about it due to how powerless they were in their current condition. This was the last straw, the government felt powerless, so the founding fathers called for convection to make