Question

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Why were the Articles of Confederation so ineffective?
What was the goal of the Constitutional Convention?
How was representation done in the House of Representative?
How was representation done in the Senate?

Answer 1

1. The Articles of Confederation were ineffective because the congress had very limited powers. As the end of the second sentence in the first paragraph says: "Congress was given no authority to issues taxes to the states". Without money, the federal government cannot operate government programs. This is one example where Congress didn't have much power, and consequently, the "united states" focused more on "states" aspect rather on the "united" aspect. In other words, the 13 states weren't really unified by a common goal and rather they were just loosely tied together. One could argue that those 13 states were more or less 13 different countries in a way.
2. The flaws in the Articles of Confederation were very apparent and that's what caused the Constitution Convention in 1787. The goal of the convention was to fix the Articles of Confederation; however, as the second paragraph mentions, "The assembly immediately discarded the Articles of Confederation to create a new form of government". The problems were just too numerable that the members of the convention figured it was easier to start over.
3. The House of Representatives has each member represent a proportion of the population. The more people in a given state, the more members the House of Representatives gets for that state. The state of New York has a lot of people in it compared to a state like Georgia, so New York gets more house members.
4. In contrast, the Senate consists of 2 members from each state. No matter how big or small the state is, each state gets the same representation in this legislative chamber. This is to counter-balance the fact that larger states get more house members. So in a way its like a checks-and-balance but solely within the legislative branch (the branch is balancing itself).