After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress, sitting in its temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania, agrees to adopt the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union on November 15, 1777. Not until March 1, 1781, would the last of the 13 states, Maryland, ratify the agreement.
In 1777, Patriot leaders, stinging from British oppression, were reluctant to establish any form of government that might infringe on the right of individual states to govern their own affairs. The Articles of Confederation, then, provided for only a loose federation of American states. Congress was a single house, with each state having one vote, and a president elected to chair the assembly. Although Congress did not have the right to levy taxes, it did have authority over foreign affairs and could regulate a national army and declare war and peace. Amendments to the Articles required approval from all 13 states. On March 2, 1781, following final ratification by the 13th state, the Articles of Confederation became the law of the land.
Less than five years after the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, enough leading Americans decided that the system was inadequate to the task of governance that they peacefully overthrew their second government in just over 20 years. The difference between a collection of sovereign states forming a confederation and a federal government created by a sovereign people lay at the heart of debate as the new American people decided what form their new government would take.
In 1787, an extra-legal body met in seclusion during Philadelphia’s summer heat to create this new government. On March 4, 1789, the modern United States was established when the U.S. Constitution formally replaced the Articles of Confederation.
Between 1776 and 1789, Americans went from living under a sovereign king, to living in sovereign states, to becoming a sovereign people. That transformation defined the American Revolution.
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The Articles of Confederation were subjected to ‘inquiry’ towards impeachment in private closed door sessions.
Sounds familiar.
There is great diversity of thought, temperament, spiritual proclivity, and biological traits within the Aryan race, much more, I have read, than within others. For long-term prosperity and high culture, White Americans would have been better served by the confederation model than by the Constitution IMO, especially with respect to such principles as decentralization, subsidiarity, simplicity, political flexibility, economic adaptability, individual liberty, racial continuity, and mutual defense via militias and/or reserve forces with levels of personal motivation higher than with professional and mercenary fighters with little racial or civic loyalty, as we essentially have now .
Could we go back to them? Or at least mostly back to them, but perhaps keep the primary thing we need a central govt. for, which is to consolidate the debts and have a single currency?
Even better, can the South and Midwest just leave and let the rest of the country figure out how to avoid Escape from New York, without food, fuel, and water supplies? Damn it I just want us to secede.
In 1786 a convention met in Annapolis, Maryland (see link below). They were tasked with fixing defects in the Articles, but they reported this task was impossible. So the Constitutional Convention was convened in 1787.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/annapoli.asp
Needed some tweaking. Consolidated debt, single currency cannot be understated in its importance. It’s why the Euro is failing. There were other items listed as failings (tariffs on interstate commerce), but I would love to see a Southern consortium slap tariffs on New York and Connecticut.