1. The Articles of Confederation

2. What is a constitution?
Why were the Articles of confederation written?
When were the Articles of Confederation written?
Do we still follow the Articles of Confederation today?
Name the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

3. The Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation:
Provided for a weak national government
Gave Congress no power to tax or regulate commerce among the states
Provided for no common currency
Gave each state one vote regardless of size
Provided for no executive or judicial branches

4. Raise your hand before speaking. Respect others’ property
Constitution
A set of rules or laws
Raise your hand before speaking.
Respect others’ property

5. The Articles of Confederation
First constitution (set of rules or laws) of the New Country called the United States of America

6. 1776 Declaration of Independence was approved-

7. 1777
Date the Articles of confederation was written.

8. 1781 The Articles of Confederation went into effect a few months before the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.

9. 1781 The surrender of Lord Cornwallis-ending the Revolutionary War - Also called The American Revolution.

10. Weaknesses of The Articles of Confederation
The confederation of delegates had a difficult time writing the first constitution, a plan of government, because at this time in history, no other country in the world had a government similar to what the delegates wanted.

11. The Articles of Confederation: Provided for a weak National Government…..because…..

12. The delegates wanted strong leaders -but feared that if they gave the government too much power it could turn even good leaders bad. And they certainly didn’t want to be ruled by another king.
Good Bad

13. Each of the 13 Original Colonies wanted to be their “own little country”.

14. The Articles of Confederation: Gave Congress NO power to…

15. …tax the colonists or…

16. …regulate (control) commerce (business/buying and selling) between the states (interstate) and other countries

17. The Articles of Confederation: Provided for NO common currency (same kind of money)

19. The Articles of Confederation: Gave each state one vote (in Congress)regardless of population size.

20. We all get one vote. It doesn’t matter how many people we have living in our state.

21. We have more people in Massachusetts. We should get more votes.
No, the Articles of Confederation say you get only one vote.

22. The Articles of Confederation: Provided for no Executive…

23. (The president is the head of the Executive Branch.)

24. Or Judicial Branch(The Court System-determines if laws are constitutional)of Government

25. Congress could do some things, but could not do other things:

26. The Articles of Confederation

27. Because of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation it lasted only from 1777-1788.

28. The Articles of Confederation was replaced with The United States Constituion that we still use today.

29. Review… What is a constitution?
Why were the Articles of confederation written?
When were the Articles of Confederation written?
Do we still follow the Articles of Confederation today?
Name the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.