Which had already been signed by the ambassadors, sat for months inĬongress because there weren't enough delegates present to vote on it! It was so slow that the Peace Treaty with Great Britain, This made the course of conducting businessĮxtremely slow. States would appoint their delegates, but they might or might not show The Congress had no authority to require delegates to even meet.Reasons why George Washington's Continental Army was continually Supply troops, which many times went unfulfilled. Instead Congress would send requests to each state to It also had no power to require people to Congress was supposed to control the military, but had no power to.Inherently unfair to the larger states because they were asked toĬontribute more because of their size, yet had no greater say in how Another problem was that each state had one vote.Was supposed to oversee military affairs and regulate the economy. The time the states didn't send the requested money, yet the Congress States for money, it had no power to force them to comply, so most of ItĬould only ask the states for money or get loans. The Congress had no power to tax the people to raise revenue. Several issues that arose over the next few years included: Government so weak that it didn't have enough power to accomplish much. Because of this fear, the Congress and colonies thatĪdopted the Articles of Confederation made the Recall that the American people were extremely concerned about their Right from the start there were problems with the Articles of Confederation. The last state to ratify was Maryland on March 1,ġ781, and from that time the Articles of Confederation were the ruling document of the United States of America until the Constitution of the United States was adopted in 1788. The committee set up to study the confederation proposed a draft in the summer of 1777 and theįormal Articles of Confederation were adopted by theĬongress on November 15, 1777. Up to study each issue and to present ideas to Congress about how to The three things were 1) a Declaration of Independenceįrom Great Britain, 2) that alliances with foreign powers againstīritain should be sought out and 3) that provision should be made for aįormal confederation between the thirteen colonies. The Lee Resolution proposed three things to the Congress at theĭirection of the Virginia Convention. On JRichard Henry Lee of Virginia presented to the Second Continental Congress what became known as the Lee Resolution. Bill of Rights History of the Bill of Rights
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