Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States, but it was a fail. In 1787 many people and the founding fathers were in arguments that resulted in the creation of a brand new constitution, which is still used till this day.

There were many disagreements at the Constitutional Convention. The delegates argued over slavery, number of representatives each state would have, the powers of the President, a Bill of Rights, power of the states. There was little agreement on anything except that the articles of confederation were poor. One main disagreement at the Constitutional Convention were that the delegates didn't want to make a whole new form of government and one state to be superior than the other. The states with the most population argued that they should have more power than states with little population like Delaware. The small states and the large state argued and discussed for days. But after discussing they came up with a solution the Virginia plan. There would be two houses in the legislative branch, the House of Representatives and the Senate. Then, there was the problem in counting slaves as part of the population for the House. It was decided that a slave counted as 3/4 of a person in the count. These arguments lasted for many days, but eventually came to a compromise, which was good for the United States as a growing country.

Another main disagreement at the Constitutional Convention was several issues regarding slavery. There wasn't much serious talk of abolishing slavery, since several of the Southern states would not join the Union if slavery were abolished. Ten states had banned the slave trade, but the other three (Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina) threatened to leave the convention if the slave trade were banned. The compromise was to give Congress the power to ban the slave trade, but only 20 years after the Constitution was signed. Another disagreement at the Convention was