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Essay On The Articles Of Confederation

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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 …show more content…

In the Constitution, the Supreme Court is the overriding law of the land. The Supreme Court can overrule the decisions made by the likes of a state or appeals court. The Constitution is clear in its attempts to unify the nation and strengthen the federal government, all while maintaining the freedoms of the states and the feeling of equality. Though the Constitution is written in a vague way, leaving it to be open for interpretation and allowing it to conform with the changes that time brings to society. But because of the uncertainty of the document, it has often been misinterpreted, or has caused a wide array of viewpoints of a certain issues. The most memorable example being that of the Civil War, but today it is even more prevalent when we try to relate modern day issues to the ambiguous instructions left to us by our forefathers. Presently, our country is at its core guided by a document called the Constitution, and it has been that way since 1787. Before the time of the Constitution there was another written document that ran this country known as the Articles of Confederation. Though with both of them having, at the core, the same goal of uniting the country, they went about it in very different ways. In the Articles, equality and a feeble central government are praised, while state power runs rampant, and severe economic problems cause irreversible civil unrest that lead to the creation of a new document known as the Constitution. In

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