Articles of Confederation vs. Constitution

[Anarchist420]

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Fern
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Which do you prefer?

I would do almost anything for the AoC to be reinstated.

All of the "problems" with the AoC weren't really problems. You didn't need a uniform currency (ways around it) and no mandatory taxation was necessary.

Also, slavery would've ended sooner for a few reasons:
No central protection for slavery, and the south wouldn't have needed the free labor because they wouldn't have had to have paid tarriffs and they wouldn't have had to have paid debt twice (Hamilton had the Federal government assume the states debt because the southern states had paid it mostly off, while the northern states hadn't).

 

[ichy]

Sorry, but that sounds like a fantasy. If you want a perfect example of why such a weak central government is a problem I suggest you look at what happened to the Old Swiss Confederation in 1848.

The problem isn't with the Constitution, it's that the United States is becoming less and less of a federal republic where many functions of government are delegated to the states. Instead we look to Washington DC to deal with everything, rather than sticking to the specific duties that the Constitution gave to the feds.

 

[JTsyo]

A weak federal government is not what you want in the international scene. I think the Civil War settled the issue of the power of the federal government vs the states.