Meiji Restoration<span>, </span><span>in Japanese history, the political </span>revolution<span> in 1868 that brought about the final </span>demise<span> of the Tokugawa </span>shogunate<span> (military government)—thus ending the </span>Edo (Tokugawa) period<span> (1603–1867)—and, at least nominally, returned control of the country to direct imperial rule under Mutsuhito (the emperor </span>Meiji<span>)</span>
the Articles of Confederation had been a loose confederation between the states leaving the central government more weak than the states. The Constitution helped created the need for a stronger central government
