Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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And once they lost that common enemy, they kind of became each other's enemy.
Congress did not have the right under the Articles to enforce the collection of taxation, so it had no money.
So it couldn't pay any of its officials.
It couldn't pay off its debts from the war.
It couldn't pay for an army to defend its new borders.
It could do nothing.
The states were squabbling with each other over economic principles and defense of its borders, over the right to navigate different rivers and set taxes, all of these things.
And all of the international empires, as well as the native nations on the western borders, were ready and waiting for the country to fall apart and to pick off the pieces to tuck back into their territories.
So it was a very calamitous situation.
It was really a series of compromises that had been patched together to try and address some of the problems that they had seen, to try and give future generations flexibility to solve problems that they could not yet possibly foresee, or problems like slavery that they understood were going to be a huge issue but didn't know yet how to solve.
There were a lot of people at the time who were very opposed to slavery.
And there were a lot of people who understood the hypocrisy of talking about liberty and freedom while owning other human beings.
And many British observers actually talked about that the loudest yelps for liberty were coming from those that owned people.
There were a lot of people who wanted to give the federal government more power to regulate slavery.
There were a lot of people who felt that it was wildly unfair to give Southern states more representation in Congress while they were depriving other people of their liberties.
But South Carolina and some of the other states threatened to leave the Constitutional Convention if any effort was made to curtail slavery.
Native nations, in theory, had the right to negotiate with the United States as another sovereign nation.
But in practice, the United States often trampled over those rights or forced nations into very detrimental agreements that ceded a lot of their land to the United States.
There were also a lot of wars fought against Native nations.
So it was a deeply flawed document.
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