The Articles of Confederation To say that from 1781 to 1789, the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government would be over-exaggerating quite a bit. To many people in the present day, an effective government is a body that can govern mass numbers of people, and still be just in their overruling decisions on matters and also keeping law and order in mind, always remembering to do things for the benefit of the …showed first 75 words of 1342 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1342 total…an effective government, the said factors and problems would not have been in existence. In order to have an effective government, the people of the 1780’s needed a strong central government to regulate things such as commerce, land, and taxes. However, the Articles of Confederation still served as a stepping stone for the U.S. in that the strong federal Constitution would probably never have been adopted if this intermediate step had not been taken.