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When they were first drafted.
What is 1776?
Johnny went to Massachusetts on a Ye Olde Schoolhouse field trip but couldn't buy lunch with his money from Virginia.
What is the government not being able to impose a uniform system of national currency?
Basically the same thing as amendment 10 of the constitution.
What is Article 2?
When they were finally ratified.
What is 1781?
"Some farmers wanna keep raiding courthouses because we wanna close their farms." (Go figure.) "Kim, people are dying"
What is the government's inability to raise a national militia?
Basically the same thing as Section II of Article IV of the Constitution.
What is Article 4?
This is what the Articles established in terms of forms of government.
What is a confederation of sovereign states?
Our government is broke:( But Congress can't do anything about it XD
What is Congress not being able to levy taxes?
The Amendment process requires this.
What is unanimous consensus of all thirteen states?
Each State retains its Sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.
What is Article 2?
The problem that accompanied Congress' power to regulate foreign affairs, war, the postal service, to appoint military officers, control Indian affairs, borrow money, determine the value of the coin, and issue bills of credit.
What is Congress no being able to regulate foreign and interstate commerce?
This established the precedent by which the federal government would be sovereign and expand westward.
What are the Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance enacted by the Confederation Congress?
The major typo included in the Articles.
What is "it's" instead of "its"?
(Not related to the topic) This foreign state could join the US if it wanted to.
What is Canada?
Seeing as the articles did not actually provide for an executive branch, delegates at the Constitutional Convention argued for the title of this position before settling on what it is today.
What is “His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of their Liberties”?