The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The Articles of Confederation was the first Constitution of the United States. It has thirteen sections.
Article 1.- Refers to the name United States.
2.- The sovereignty of the states that had their own powers in their territory.
3.- The states must help each other if threatened by attacks.
4.- Free pass for American colonists when traveling across the states, except for criminals.
5.- The number of votes each state had in the Confederation.
6.- Central government power to make international treaties and the power of the states to raise an army.
7.- The states decide their military leaders.
8.- The states are the ones who could collect money through taxation. In the central government needed money, it had to ask for it from the states.
9.- The central government is the only one that has the power to declare war and assign ambassadors in other nations.
10.- The creation of the Committee of States that could substitute the Congress when needed.
11.- Open doors in the case wanted to join the United States.
12.- Accepting early debts and the willingness of the government to pay them.
13.- All the states have to agree in the case they would like to change the Articles.
