The restrictive foundation of the Articles of Confederation prohibited the federal government from dutifully protecting the people from chaos and corruption.
Problems with Articles of Confederation
- The government was designed to be very weak, giving states the most power

The restrictive foundation of the Articles of Confederation prohibited the federal government from dutifully protecting the people from chaos and corruption.
Problems with Articles of Confederation
- The government was designed to be very weak, giving states the most power
- Huge debt from the Revolutionary War (about $50 million)
- Central government could not control fiscal or monetary policy
- The government could not enforce any of the decisions that it made
- Needed unanimous support from all of the 13 states to change the Articles of Confederation
- The paper money was so worthless, it ceased to pass as currency
- No power to tax
Resolution of these problems
- Make government with three branches-Legislative, Executive, Judicial (separation of powers)
- Disperses powers allowing for a system of checks and balances
- Each branch has some power over the others so that no one branch becomes too powerful. Also protects against tyranny
- Federalism-two levels of government-national and state
- Constitution gives much more power to the federal govt.
Framers of the Constitution were wealthy white men! women, slaves, poor whites and native americans had no say in government and it would take a change to the constitution to fix this. Since this excluded population vastly outnumbered rich white men then the rule by the minority was now the law of the land, only about a quarter of the people in the United States could vote.
1 African Americans didn't get to vote counting the population of each state, a black man would count as only three-fifths as much as a white man.
2 Women are 50% of the population and they had no vote
3Native Americans were not allowed to vote in the first hundred years of the United St