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As the tin says. Find a way to make the Articles of Confederation work within the frame of mind that they were concieved in.
Well at the very least you need a central legislature, a strong central legislature, the beginnings of a Federal Judiciary and an executive, in other words the Constitution
If the Articles become the constitution, you don't win the challenge and the cookie.
The idea is to create a USA based around a workable AC.
Almost impossible. There is a reason it was scrapped. You wound up with a dead broke government, squabbling states and very poor economic policy. Large confederacies are inherently unstable.
I don't see how this can be stated categorically. The entire point of this website is that, just because something happened IOTL, doesn't mean it HAD to happen.
The thing is with a weak central government it is very difficult to get tax money, enforce the law or keep the various components from squabbling. In other words it is difficult for the government to do anything we expect a government to do.
The contribution mechanism wasn't as bad as it's made out to be. Russel Sobel makes a good argument that it performed just about as good as any taxation system might have.
There are ways to enforce penalties and punishments for flagrant breach of confederation law without creating a powerful central government -- the cooperative retaliation mechanism I mentioned above is just one. If individual states persist in blocking interstate trade, then the Confederation Congress can be used as a mechanism for coordinating a massive retaliation on the part of all other states.
How do you feel about the EU?
Considering what is happening in Greece I am not crazy about it. Personally I think Greece will have to be kicked off the Euro soon. After that it will be followed by Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland in some order. That is what happens when you have sovereign entities trying to share the same currency.
Yeah but somethings are just really unlikely, the only way the articles would work was if everyone involved was a very generous idealist or if you made some changes.I don't see how this can be stated categorically. The entire point of this website is that, just because something happened IOTL, doesn't mean it HAD to happen.
Now, they might hold together long enough for changes to be made piecemeal--but as articles binding several near sovereign nations together, rather than one contry in the European sence. Perhaps something like the EU is becoming...