#articles of confederation

[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 :)

[paranoid-spotlight-everest]

Articles of Confederation my problematic fave. Cringefail babygirl. You had no hope.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[fatdaypants]

John Dickinson's gravesite, can't barely see it, took me forever to find

[teachanarchy]

The Mess that was the Articles of Confederation | Power and Politics in ...

[arthurdrakoni]

Flag of the Commonwealth of California

This is the flag of The Commonwealth of California.  It comes from a world where the Constitution was never ratified, and the Articles of Confederation remained the primary governing document for the United States.  Unfortunately, this meant that the federal government remained weak and ineffectual.  The states soon began to question why they needed to take orders from Washington, and regionalist movements began to spring up.  By the early 19th century the United States had completely collapsed.  Each state became its own nation, with smaller states joining bigger ones either willingly or by force.  Though the United States had failed as a nation, the idea of the United States inspired other colonies to rebel against their mother nations and seek independence.

The ideal of Manifest Destiny never really became a thing, but there was a general westward movement among the peoples of North America.  However, how they got westward was considerably different than in our world.  That brings us to California.  It was primarily settled by British colonist from the Oregon Territory.  This had multiple effects on California's development.  For example, California is governed by a parliament, led by a prime minister, and the Queen's Birthday is a national holiday.  California is also a proud member of the Commonwealth of Nations.  Just as in our world, California has a significant Mexican minority, and most Californians are bilingual. 

California is one of the most prosperous nations in North America. It has a booming tech sector, and it's farms help feed people across North America. In the past, California had a history in intervening in wars, but it has backed off from that in more recent times.  The big focus now is space exploration.  California has launched multiple missions to the Moon and now there's talk of a possible Mars mission.

California's British heritage is very much reflected on its flag with the blue background and St. George's canton.  The seal hearkens back to the early days of British settlement, all under the watchful eye of Britannia herself. The tree in the canton is a California Redwood. 

Link to the original flag on my blog: https://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2017/04/flag-of-commonwealth-of-california.html?m=1

[quotesfromall]

Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any Court, or place out of Congress, and the members of congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace.

John Dickinson, 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…

[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 🫡

[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.

[davidaugust]

Do you know who tried to run the entire government of a country off of tariffs? We did, under the Articles of Confederation after the American Revolution (before the Constitution was written) we tried running the place off of the revenue from tariffs, and for a combination of reasons it didn’t work.

It won’t work now, not to run the place, nor to protect American manufacturing. A fella named Herbert Hoover tried using tariffs that way and helped make the Great Depression happen. Tried and failed.

[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…

[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

[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!"

[fatdaypants]

Inconvenient Aristocracy