Although I consider myself an AnCap, I hear all this discussion about how we’ve obviated the Constitution in almost every manner and that we have to pretty much “return to the Constitution”. But, I rarely hear discussion about the Articles of Confederation and how much freer everyone was. Why is this the case? Why hasn’t there been legitimate forums/debates on this at all?
EDIT: Essentially, I feel as if this document has been almost completely shunned and just briefly mentioned..
While not recent, I know that the Articles of Confederation were actually revived in spirit during the earlier Mexican government (I can’t recall which constitution was based off them from the top of my head). Of course said Constitution was promptly replaced for a more centralized oriented one, only for it, in turn, be replaced for a more centralized constitution; and such until we arrive at the 1917 Constitution. So while the Articles have been shot dead in the United States, they haven’t been completely been ignored abroad.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist
don’t know much about the AoC except that I remember it being talked about in a negative light in textbooks and that it was more decentralized than our current constitution, shocker.
While not the Articles of Confederation, and I hope I’m not going too much into a side issue here, but what of the Mayflower Compact? Is it actually a rare example of a constitution that was actually valid in its inception due to the property owners of the Mayflower having agreed to it? Or was it only agreed upon by some members of what would come to be the Plymoth colony? My memory fails me currently.