confederation and constitution of the united states

The Central Government The Articles of
Confederation and the Constitution are both alike and different in some
ways. Let's start out with the similarities. Firstly, both the Articles of
Confederation and the Constitution have a Legislative Branch of
Government and a Congress. Secondly, they both made changes to the
government before them. In this, I mean that when the Articles of
Confederation were being written, they used the English Government as
a base, and improved from there. They didn't want the president to be too
powerful, like the king. The Constitution made changes to the Articles of
Confederation by making a stronger government, rather than a weaker
one. Thirdly, both governments had the power to coin money, but the
Articles of Confederation didn't use that power. Now let's get to the
differences. For one thing, under the Articles of Confederation, you must
need a unanomous vote under all states to make an amendment, while in
the Constitution, you only needed a majority of twothirds of the Senate
and the House of Representatives to pass it. For another, under the
Articles of Confederation, each state in congress had only one vote, while
under the constitution, the states had two votes in the senate, (where
every state is equal) and one vote per representative in the house of
representatives (where the states had representatives according to
population). And for the last thing, under the Constitution, the government
could regulate trade, make laws, and the states were more like one firm
union of states. Under the Articles of Confederation, it was competely the
opposite.