The Articles of Confederation had been designed to provide a strong central authority just for the duration of the Revolutionary War so that all the states could work together as a single unit. The Articles included establishing federal money to avoid rampant inflation.Following the revolution, there was no central government so every state made its own decisions and coined its own money. There was rampant inflation and no federal money to pay veterans or the foreign debt. This prompted representatives from each state to meet to revise the Articles of Confederation.After the Revolution, each state wrote its own Constitution and these then were used as the basis for drafting a federal Constitution which was then sent back to the states for public input and then finalized for federal ratification.The Articles of Confederation had been designed based on the history of state power. States had had their own governments for a century or more. Therefore, the Articles emphasized state authority and had a weak central government. But this meant that each state was able to act independently and there was nothing to link the states together.

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