Question

Imagine that our nation had kept the Articles of Confederation as our form of government, instead of replacing it with the US Constitution. Choose ONE of the options below: A Predict whether you believe the U.S. would be an effective goverment today if designed like the Articles of Confederation. Defend your reasoning while making reference to two parts of the Articles of Confederation and two parts of the U.S. Constitution. B. Identify two parts of the Articles of Confederation that were a problem for our nation. Then, identify two parts of the U.S. Constitution that attempted to solve those problems. Analyze if these changes were successful in reversing the problems with the Articles.​

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

I am going to pick the scenario "B." Identify two parts of the Articles of Confederation that were a problem for our nation.

The two parts of the Articles of Confederation that were problems for the United States were that the Articles left a weak central government that could not collect money and that the central government did not have the power to raise an army.

The U.S. Constitution attempted to solve those problems after the delegates that met during the Constitutional Convention in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania debated the positions of the Federalists and Antifederalists and agreed on having a division of powers in three branches of government under a system of checks and balances in which none of the branches was going to be more powerful than the other.

These changes were successful in reversing the problems with the Articles because the Constitution establishes the faculties and powers for the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch.