So what happened to the Articles? Was it amended or did a revolution occur? It only took 9 states to create the new union - not 13.
So what happened to the Articles
The Articles didn't work out. Haven't you heard?
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Do away with law and you can punt the Constitution.
I read somewhere that George Washington was practically worshipped by the young officers in the Continental Army. They knew that he was scrupulously fair.
That seems a pretty good character reference to me. And Washington thought the Articles had failed. Something stronger was needed. He wrote:
"Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt & carry into execution, measures the best calculated for their own good without a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner, as the authority of the different state governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of vesting Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me the very climax of popular absurdity and madness."
George Washington to John Jay, August 19, 1786
But perhaps Mr. Lincoln said it best.
"And this issue embraces more than the fact of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man, the question, whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy--a government of the people, by the same people--can or cannot, maintain its territorial integtrity against its own domestic foes. It presents the question, whether discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control administration, accroding to organic law, in any case, can always, upon the pretenses made in this case, or on any other pretenses, or arbitrarily, without any pretense, break up their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of neccessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existance?"
A. Lincoln, 7/4/61
Washington wanted a stronger government and he got one.
You can't carp at President Lincoln unless you carp at the framers.
Walt