Articles Of Confederation Problems

The Articles of Confederation is the first constitution document of the United States that called for a loose confederation between the new United States without a strong centralized government. There were some problems with this document that the new constitution had to correct. Leaders were holing a convention where they were beginning to recognize the problems of the Articles. The Articles of Confederation had problems with representation of states, regulating trade, passing laws, levying taxes, and raising an army. The congress had a lot of responsibilities but little authority to deal with them and many states often did not comply.
Twelve states were supposed to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles, but out of 74 delegates that were supposed to be sent only 55 attended with Rhode Island not participating. James Madison held the position in drafting the Constitution to replace the Articles

of Confederation, but the amending required the consent of all states and not all were there. But that didn’t stop the process though, the men simply ignored that and began creating a whole new Constitution.
The representation of states in the Articles only let each state receive one vote regardless of size and that was fine with the smaller states because they wanted to represent themselves, but the larger states wanted the Congress to represent them. To end the bickering, the delegates came to an agreement with the idea of the Connecticut compromise which called for a bicameral legislature with equal representation where the Senate received two votes and the House of Representatives was based on the population. They meant for the compromise to create equality but instead it gave smaller states more power because the majority of power relies in their Senate who ratifies treaties, confirms presidential nominations, and hears impeachment trials.
They saw regulation of trade as a problem too, in the Articles there was no provision to regulate interstate trade, in other words there was no control of the trading between states.

To change that, they decided to put in the Constitution that Congress has the right to regulate trade between states. The passing of laws was complicated because again the congress could only do so much with the little power that they had and to approve legislation they needed 9 of 13 of the states to approve. There was not a strong government provided and that’s was something that the leaders wanted to change. There were three branches of government created independently so that no branch could control the other. There was the Executive Branch which was the White House (President and Vice President), the Legislative Branch which was the U.S. Capital (Congress, House of Representatives, and Senate), and the Judicial branch which was the Supreme Court. Under the Constitution in order to pass laws, they needed 50%+1 of both houses plus signature of the

President.
With levying taxes in the Articles of Confederation, the Congress could request states to pay taxes but that changed. Taxing was necessary, so when the Constitution came about the Congress now had the right to levy taxes on individuals. The final problem I chose is raising armies, in the Articles the Congress couldn’t draft troops, they were dependent on states to enlist themselves to help fight. The Constitution changed that by letting the Congress raise an army themselves to deal with military situations.
Although the Constitution was made to take place of the Articles of Confederation, the delegates still needed the states to agree to use it. The Federalist were the people that was accepting the document, but there were still some who was nervous to let this change happen and they were labeled the Anti-Federalist. They felt that if they accept this document called the Constitution that they would be giving up their power, but a man by the name of James Madison put their fears to rest a little when he made the Bill of Rights amendments. The Bill of Rights stated that there will be freedom of religion, speech, and press, right to bear arms, no obligation to quarter soldiers, and security of the people against unreasonable searches and seizure. By Madison calming the fears of the Anti-Federalist they were able to get enough votes to make the Constitution official.