THE AOC PART 1

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Every night at 11 p.m., you and your roommates hear loud music coming from inside other apartments. You’re fed up, but your landlord isn’t willing to take charge of the situation and says to deal with it on your own.

• NO BIG DEAL!

• DEALBREAKER

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Your apartment could really use new furniture. You ask your other roommates for money to help, but they say no.

• NO BIG DEAL!

• DEALBREAKER!

On November 15, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. This document set in place a national government for the old colonies/new states, which was pretty impressive considering they were still in the middle of a war.

They needed a national body that could make decisions, especially ones to help further and fund their war. The Articles weren’t officially ratified, or approved, by all 13 states, until March 1, 1781. That long gap showed some of the tensions between these new “roommates,” some of which had surfaced even when Congress was drafting the document. Once ratified, it became the official governing document of the United States for another seven years until it was replaced by the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

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NEW GOVERNMENT ALERT!

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The colonists did not want another monarchy so...

The government that the Founders came up with had a single legislative body, a unicameral legislature called CONGRESS.
You might be wondering about the other branches of the federal government, but government under the Articles wasn’t structured like our government is today. Congress was it. There was no executive (aka the president) and no judiciary either (aka the courts).
As colonists, Americans learned that a good national government couldn’t be too powerful. Otherwise, what would stop it from trampling on the people’s liberty?

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NATIONAL GOVERNMENT=
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