Quote:I don't think there is much of debate to be had around this to be honest. The Constitution is clearly the better method. In order to modify the Articles of Confederation a unanimous vote was required, for example, which would be practically impossible with today's 50 states. Under the Articles of Confederation there was no reliable way to enforce the laws written by Congress, no reliable way to collect taxes, and trade was significantly more difficult. There was no court system under the Articles of Confederation.
The Articles of Confederation were a great tool for loosely uniting the states during the Revolutionary War, but it simply couldn't cut it as far as creating and maintaining a nation capable of gaining the level of success that the United States has. I don't know about you, but even with our rather disappointing current government I'm happier living in the US than I would be living under the Articles of Constitution where government was capable of less than what the UN is currently capable of. Whether you like government or not, there has to be some backbone in place in order for us to live the lives that we do.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but I will say that the Founders envisioned the United States as only being a small Country with a limited form of central Government with more power given to the States. They never could have dreamt that the United States would have ever expanded past the Ohio Valley and West of the Mississippi River. Let alone having a flag with each star representing 50 States and a handful of territories and possessions that we have today in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean.
The AOC fulfilled that role of unifying the Colonies as one independent body of States, but you also have to consider with what I said earlier about the Civil War and how it could have been averted if the AOC was still the law of the land at that period of time. A lot of the issues between States during the Civil War are rooted in many of the old Federalist vs Anti-Federalist debates in Philadelphia and Princeton that were happening at that time.
There was actually a special provision within the AOC which stated that Canada was free to join up with the rest of the US at anytime. So maybe out there in some Parallel Universe there actually exists a United States where Canada (or at least Quebec), would be apart of the US right now.
If the AOC was still around, we would have had a system of Government which was very similar to that of Switzerland in the 18th and 19th Centuries. With the States replacing the role of Swiss Cantons. In fact, the Founding Fathers (or at least Jefferson), wanted to model the United States after Switzerland and NOT the Roman Republic and certainly not Ancient Athens. Even though many of our ideas of a Republic were borrowed from that of Ancient Rome.
That pretty much finishes my rambling for the night lol.
