Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation

The first page of the Articles of Confederation
Quick Facts
Ratified	March 1, 1781
Approved By	Continental Congress
Purpose	First U.S. constitution
Replaced By	U.S. Constitution (1789)
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Preamble and Articles of the Constitution
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The Articles of Confederation, formally named the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among all thirteen original states in the United States of America that served as its first constitution.^[1] All thirteen states ratified the Articles in early 1781.

In 1789, the Founding Fathers replaced the Articles with the United States Constitution and a federal form of government.

1. ↑ Jensen, Merrill (1959). The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. xi, 184. ISBN 978-0-299-00204-6.