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A 4 page research paper that discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and the problems that prompted the Constitution Convention that resulted in the U.S. Constitution. The process of ratifying the new Constitution is also described. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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a difficult time and successfully concluded the Revolutionary War with a favorable treaty and also provided for peaceful settlement into western territories (U.S. Information Service, 1991). However, the Articles also
entailed many problems. The new country was in debt and the fact that many of the States printed their own money had a detrimental effect on the value of the
currency printed by the federal government. Furthermore, the Articles did not provide a legal means for settling disputes between the States or controlling interstate commerce or trade with other countries.
While Congress was charged with the responsibility of defending the country, it did not have the power to either recruit troops or levy taxes in order to pay for this
defense (U.S. Information Service, 1991). The largest problem with the Articles of Confederation pertained to how the United States of America was conceptualized, that is, was it 13 sovereign
nations, with each acting as an independent country or was it 13 states sharing mutual dependence and acting as a single united country (U.S. Information Service, 1991). In order to
solve this dilemma, the Constitutional Convention was called in 1787 in order to revise the Articles of Confederation; however, eventually the delegates decided that a new Constitution was needed and
the Articles were abandoned. One of the most divisive controversies facing the Constitutional Convention was how to settle the tricky question of how to handle the issue of representation,
that is, should representation be proportional to the States population, in which case large states would have an advantage, or should representation be based on the principle that all of
the states are equal. Roger Sherman, of Connecticut, proposed a landmark compromise, which was that each State would have the same number of votes in the Senate, but that representation
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