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Why the Founding Fathers decided to "ditch" the Articles of Confederation.
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Hyron Williams Professor Mion POLS 1101 American Government 80045 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Why the Founding Fathers decided to "ditch" the Articles of Confederation. The decision to remove the Articles of Confederation was inevitable. Due to the fact the Articles had too many weaknesses for the country to stand as a single nation. Seeing as how the Articles provided a very weak national government that was subaltern to the states he seemed to have the power, which defeats the purpose of creating the Articles or any national government at all. Even the political process in way the Articles of Confederation was suppose to work was unlikely to work. Under the Articles there was a national congress, its members were appointed and paid by there state. Each of the thirteen states had one vote in Congress, and the agreement of nine states was required to pass legislation. More importantly any state could...
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