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After winning independence from England, the colonists created a central government. They wrote a document called the Article of Confederation. This Article of Confederation created a weak government and not functional. States have more power and the national government has little power even as to handle the basis needs to run a government properly. In this document, states can charged taxes from the sale from other colonies. States makes its own money and do not really want the "continental dollar", the printed dollar of the national government. No one is paying the national army. Trades between states became very complicated transaction.

For these reasons, colonial leaders came together again to fix the problem. They eventually wrote the United States Constitution. The Constitution was designed to make all states work together. It explains how one national government can unite the states. The Constitution contains the country's basic laws. It guides the people in running the country. It protects the rights and freedom of the people. This Constitution defines the United States as we know today and has become the model for the government around the world. It survives more than two hundred years.