... problems of the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation. The Articles served as a written constitution for the people to put down their ideas during the years 1781 to 1789 but was plagued by numerous complications. The Articles gave the states sovereignty, freedom, and power to govern themselves but must limit power of the national government. This included the inability of the Confederation Congress ... off the table. The antifederalists thought that the Constitution was undemocratic due to the fact that they believed it was based on the much hated aristocratic government. T...

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... boycotts and eventually aggressive actions like attacking British agents and destroying British property. With the ideas of revolution stirring the first continental congress was formed and met in 1774 and discussed their impending relationship with Great Britain. Revolution ended up being the relationship between the two, which promptly broke out as the Revolutionary War in 1775. The second continental congress met again in ... Both sides started arming and on April 12th, 1861 the confederate army attacks a union fort and the war is fought until April of 1865. The executive branch real...

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