A Brief History of the 17th Amendment At the beginning of the United States of America, our form of government was a confederation of 13 states united by the Articles of Confederation (1777). Our founders elected a confederacy to prevent being under the heel of an all-powerful central government. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, …
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When the United States of America first incorporated, 13 sovereign states united as a confederacy. To understand a confederacy, one must first learn the qualities of a federation. A federation is defined as the formation of political unity, with a central government, by a number of separate states, each of which retains control of its …
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John N. White