#Articles of Confederation

[ruling13yrs]

Canadian Statehood

Back in 1777 Canada was considering joining The United States, and The Articles of Confederation specified that it could be done. In US History The Articles of Confederation, Article XI reads: “Article XI. Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the united states, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony shall…

[truegeorge]

The Constitution: Convention

                After the battlefield victory and the signing of the “Treaty of Paris” in 1783, the American Revolutionary War officially ended. The thirteen colonies were recognized as free and independent states from Great Britain. During the Revolutionary War The second Continental Congress already had the framework for a national government and after the constitutional convention in 1777 the…

[ellies-chaos-corner]

History classes have ingrained the fact that "AoC" stands for "Articles of Confederation" and not "Age of Calamity", so whenever I see someone in the LoZ community talking about Age of Calamity by using AoC I'm just like "Why are they talking about the Articles of Confederation? Oh wait it's Age of Calamity."

[thewiseegg]

Here is my contribution to the Founding Father and Hamilton fan base :)

[second-wolf]

Apparently, in the Articles of Confederation, the document that governed the US before the constitution, there was an entire article of the 13 articles that stated Canada could just join as a full member whenever they wanted.

“Canada, acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.”

-Article XI, Articles of Confederation

[awesomehistoryloverblog]

Shays Rebellion of 1786, the 1st American Insurrection

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Shays Rebellion storms courthouses in Massachusetts Shays Rebellion of 1786 was a series of violent attacks by rural landowners on county courthouses and armories in Massachusetts.  It led to a full-blown military confrontation with the state militia in the winter of 1787. The angry rebels were mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers, now mostly farmers. They opposed the state’s tax and debt…

[dontcallittimetravel]

On This Day: the continental congress finalizes the articles of confederation, and everyone goes, "Whew, that was tough. Good thing we don't have to ever do that again!"

[drjdorr]

you know how people try to claim confederate stuff should be left alone and/or celebrated for "heritage"(for the person in my life who tries to play that card: you're seemingly descended from northerners, your heritage is more likely to be shooting at and being shot at by people flying that flag) and of course how plenty of people point out that stuff like Phineas and Ferb lasted longer so are bigger parts of our heritage? well out of curiosity I looked up how long the Articles of Confederation lasted. 8 years and a bit. the civil war lasted a few days shy of 4. for perspective, the Articles of Confederation was the basis of the US government before it quickly failed and was replaced with the Constitution. lets make it clear, the document famous for rapidly failing and needing to be replaced almost immediately and is otherwise a footnote, lasted over twice as long as the civil war.

[teachanarchy]

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[vocabulari]

Reading the articles of confederation for my con law class and wanted to let you know that paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice are NOT entitled to privileges and immunities of free citizens! Thats such a funny list of exceptions to me,, I want to know the legal definition of a vagabond, we may as well add rascals, menaces, and scallywags to the list at this point. Also paupers? They said no <3 to poor people, what’s new I guess, anyway reblog if you are a pauper, vagabond, and/or fugitive of justice 🫡

[oldblogger]

States of the United States vs. the Federal Government

States of the United States vs. the Federal Government: http://wp.me/prazu-12S

  From before the adoption of the US Constitution in 1787, there has been strenuous argument, sometimes bordering on the violent, between those who wanted a strong central government and those who saw the individual states as the primary locus of governmental power—except for those 18 specific powers granted to the two houses of the federal government, as enumerated in the Constitution. (Former…

[truegeorge]

The Constitution: Articles of Confederation

Now that you have an understanding about the declaration of independence, the document that the Second Continental Congress drafted listing the grievances with Great Britian and declare that the thirteen colonies ought to be free and independent states, absolved of allegiance from the British Crown, and severing all political connections to the state of Great Britain.  As the activities on the…

[world-v-you-blog]

The Uses of History, 10 – USA Meltdown, 1

The Uses of History, 10 – USA Meltdown, 1

History is a dance with the past, with a phantom or ghost – sometimes well-defined, sometimes mere outline, always mysterious. VJM, 2022 The infant United States of America emerged from its successful Revolution in 1783 far from unified. The Treaty of Paris brought peace with Great Britain and an enormous addition of territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. But it did not…

[n00h]

There were a lot of unfortunate compromises and changes that probably should have been made during the Constitutional Convention, but I think our biggest mistake was not keeping the Articles Of Confederation's standing invitation to Canada to join us. Not like I think that would've had enough affect on the timeline to make Canada accept the invitation I just think it'd be really funny if part of our highest governing document was dedicated to "hey canada just so you know you can join us anytime you want :)"

[gravitascivics]

JUDGING PAROCHIAL FEDERALISM, VI

An advocate of parochial federalism continues his/her presentation[1] …

This blog, at present, is attempting to demonstrate how isomorphic parochial federalism is – i.e., how much of a one-to-one match it is to what it describes and explains.  That would be governance and politics and this blog is relying on the federalist thinking that the founding fathers utilized in getting this nation started.  Basically, the recent postings have focused on a set of the founding documents such as the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut and the Declaration of Independence.

         This posting begins by reviewing the Articles of Confederation and the important role it played in the eventual constitution upon which the nation has relied since the late 1780s.  Of course, the Articles was the first attempt at a national constitution, and it was organized in the familiar compact style.  

It established a national governmental arrangement in which the created national government did not get direct authority from or over the citizenry, only from and over the states, despite the fact that it lacked the coercive power to enforce the states to obey the policies it enacted.  This lack of power pertained to the most fundamental governmental activities such as collecting taxes or enlisting soldiers during a time of war.[2]

As is commonly known, these deficiencies are the motivators for writing a new constitution in 1787.  What is seldom pointed out, though, are the innovations and provisions contained in the Articles that were incorporated in the US Constitution.

 That the Articles were wholly replaced by the Constitution of 1787 is not exactly the case.  It would be more accurate to say that the 1787 document, although providing for a fundamentally different kind of government, was generally constructed around an amended Articles of Confederation.  Depending upon how one counts words and provisions, from one-half to two-thirds of what appears in the Articles was retained in the Federalist Constitution of 1787.[3]

 Donald Lutz points out that these provisions which were later adopted include:

 ·      “full faith and credit,” “privileges and immunities,” and the return of interstate fugitives provisions of Article IV

·      provision for admitting new states

·      republican guarantee

·      specific grant of power (though the powers are obviously different)

·      list of prohibitions on national powers is similar in both documents

·      list of prohibitions on state governments is similar in both documents, and

·      provision that “… the free inhabitants of each of these states … shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states” (a fundamentally federalist provision in that it creates dual citizenship in state and national levels and helps define the structure of citizenship in the subsequent national constitution of 1787).

 The Articles, Lutz writes, was the vessel which precluded the shape that the eventual national government arrangement would take under the new constitution.  Before they moved on to the US Constitution, it is important to note that the foundational generation did not easily relinquish their localism – intrinsic in state sovereignty and protected by the Articles.  

The practical necessities of gaining independence from Britain and other ongoing national forces – such as ever-increasing interstate trade – made the step toward federalizing at a national level essential.  That does not necessarily mean it was welcomed by all parties, but the tide was cast.[4]

Among the average Americans, the emphasis was still in local communities meeting their own concerns despite the call for more nationalistic approaches (for example, in the pamphlet by Thomas Paine, Common Sense[5]).  What one is apt to do is to assume that Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard were familiar with their fellow colonists.  That was not the case.

This blog will end its treatment of isomorphism with this last document.  The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights amply demonstrate the culmination of how parochial federalism views governance and politics and, due to their ongoing application in the nation’s political affairs, they define the American view of governance and politics as the basis of its parochialism.  Hopefully, the reader can appreciate that that view reflects a national, parochial federalist perspective.

From this sampling of the concerns, the governmental issues that this blog has recently addressed, and how this blog has relied on the writings of Lutz, the judgement is that this review has amply demonstrated the isomorphism of this perspective.  Hopefully, the reader agrees and is willing to accept parochial federalism as the basis for the study of all aspects of the national governmental arrangement by using a historical, developmental approach.  That approach – under the designation of “methodology” – will be shortly addressed in an upcoming posting.

[1] This presentation begins with the posting, “A Parochial Subject Matter” (March 11, 2022).  The reader is reminded that the claims made in this posting do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or knowledge of this blogger.  Instead, the posting is a representation of what an advocate of parochial federalism might present.  This is done to present a dialectic position of that construct.

[2] Donald S. Lutz, “The Articles of Confederation, 1781” in Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents Interpreted, edited by Stephen L. Schechter (Madison, WI: Madison House, 1990), 227-248.

[3] Ibid., 229.

[4] For an interesting account of this less than enthusiastic unionization among Americans, see T. H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution:  How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (New York, NY:  The Oxford University Press, 2004).

[5] See Richard B. Bernstein, “John Adams’s Thoughts on Government,” in Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents Interpreted, edited by Stephen L. Schechter (Madison, WI:  Madison House, 1990), 118-128.

[teachanarchy]

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