The Articles of Confederation sucked monkey nuts. Why? I guess it's no fun having 13 different currencies and armies (I guess it would be 50 now today). It probably sucks when you can't even build a friggin' interstate highway, or have things like a national emergency oil supply. For racial minorities, it would probably also suck to be slaves. That's not a pleasant experience. I didn't bother to read the text of the link. I am referring to the Articles of Confederation as they existed in history, except for the slave comment, though theoretically that was highly probably under an Articles of Confederation type government.