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The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States. The Articles were in force from March 1, 1781, to June 21, 1788 until the current constitution was adopted. After the Revolutionary War, the committee writing the Articles was wary of a strong central government and decided to give the largest amount of power to the individual states and limited the power of the federal government. While the Articles protected the states from a supreme government they …

…unsuccessful and everyone realized it. On February 21, 1787, Congress called for a Constitutional Convention to be held in May to revise the articles. During the months that followed, the convention wrote the Constitution of the United States that shared some ideals with the pervious government but gave a lot more power to the federal government. Today, the United States had a much more effective government than it did in the years of the Articles of Confederation.