==Weaknesses and Failures==
Though the Articles did have two early successes, its weaknesses were far greater. It established no [[executive]] to enforce laws, no [[army]] or [[navy]], no [[judiciary]], no national [[currency]], could not regulate [[trade]], no way to collect [[taxes]], and [[foreign policy]] was impossible. At the [[Mount Vernon Conference]] in 1785, [[George Washington]] called together elite statesmen (including [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[James Madison]], and [[George Mason]]) to discuss the Articles. At the Conference, they decided they were a failure and needed to be rewritten, calling for an [[Annapolis Convention]] the next year. At the Convention, only five states sent delegates. They proposed to meet in [[Philadelphia]] the next year.
==under the articles of confederation==
no cheif executive such as president or king
in rohde island colony the last six of the commandments were law but not the first four and from a religious standpoint it is wrong to
: murder, theft, adultery, lying, and honoring parents. these were the only commandments that were law and rohde island was the only
colony without a state religion this is proof that the first republic started in 1781
==Signers==