Articles of Confederation vs. Constitution of the United States of America When the United States of America was formed, the leaders had to come up with a structure to pattern the government after. They did this in a written document. Their first document was the Articles of Confederation. After ten years of using this document, they found several weaknesses in it a determined that they needed to rewrite it. The second document became the Constitution …showed first 75 words of 588 total…

…showed last 75 words of 588 total…new Constitution is definitely better than the Articles of Confederation but both documents have strengths and weaknesses to them. The leaders of the United States in the late 1700's were able to see most of the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation and change them back then. The Constitution guarantees this generation and all of the future generations a very successful country with many freedoms that people from other countries are not able to enjoy.