#Articles of Confederation

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History classes have ingrained the fact that "AoC" stands for "Articles of Confederation" and not "Age of Calamity", so whenever I see someone in the LoZ community talking about Age of Calamity by using AoC I'm just like "Why are they talking about the Articles of Confederation? Oh wait it's Age of Calamity."

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Articles of Confederation my problematic fave. Cringefail babygirl. You had no hope.

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John Dickinson's gravesite, can't barely see it, took me forever to find

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The Mess that was the Articles of Confederation | Power and Politics in ...

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The Constitution: Convention

                After the battlefield victory and the signing of the “Treaty of Paris” in 1783, the American Revolutionary War officially ended. The thirteen colonies were recognized as free and independent states from Great Britain. During the Revolutionary War The second Continental Congress already had the framework for a national government and after the constitutional convention in 1777 the…

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Flag of the Commonwealth of California

This is the flag of The Commonwealth of California.  It comes from a world where the Constitution was never ratified, and the Articles of Confederation remained the primary governing document for the United States.  Unfortunately, this meant that the federal government remained weak and ineffectual.  The states soon began to question why they needed to take orders from Washington, and regionalist movements began to spring up.  By the early 19th century the United States had completely collapsed.  Each state became its own nation, with smaller states joining bigger ones either willingly or by force.  Though the United States had failed as a nation, the idea of the United States inspired other colonies to rebel against their mother nations and seek independence.

The ideal of Manifest Destiny never really became a thing, but there was a general westward movement among the peoples of North America.  However, how they got westward was considerably different than in our world.  That brings us to California.  It was primarily settled by British colonist from the Oregon Territory.  This had multiple effects on California's development.  For example, California is governed by a parliament, led by a prime minister, and the Queen's Birthday is a national holiday.  California is also a proud member of the Commonwealth of Nations.  Just as in our world, California has a significant Mexican minority, and most Californians are bilingual. 

California is one of the most prosperous nations in North America. It has a booming tech sector, and it's farms help feed people across North America. In the past, California had a history in intervening in wars, but it has backed off from that in more recent times.  The big focus now is space exploration.  California has launched multiple missions to the Moon and now there's talk of a possible Mars mission.

California's British heritage is very much reflected on its flag with the blue background and St. George's canton.  The seal hearkens back to the early days of British settlement, all under the watchful eye of Britannia herself. The tree in the canton is a California Redwood. 

Link to the original flag on my blog: https://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2017/04/flag-of-commonwealth-of-california.html?m=1

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Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any Court, or place out of Congress, and the members of congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace.

John Dickinson, Articles of Confederation

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Shays Rebellion of 1786, the 1st American Insurrection

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Shays Rebellion storms courthouses in Massachusetts Shays Rebellion of 1786 was a series of violent attacks by rural landowners on county courthouses and armories in Massachusetts.  It led to a full-blown military confrontation with the state militia in the winter of 1787. The angry rebels were mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers, now mostly farmers. They opposed the state’s tax and debt…

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Reading the articles of confederation for my con law class and wanted to let you know that paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice are NOT entitled to privileges and immunities of free citizens! Thats such a funny list of exceptions to me,, I want to know the legal definition of a vagabond, we may as well add rascals, menaces, and scallywags to the list at this point. Also paupers? They said no <3 to poor people, what’s new I guess, anyway reblog if you are a pauper, vagabond, and/or fugitive of justice 🫡

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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry But In The Third Person POV (To The People) Page Preview

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I just don’t want involved, no not this time.

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Apparently, in the Articles of Confederation, the document that governed the US before the constitution, there was an entire article of the 13 articles that stated Canada could just join as a full member whenever they wanted.

“Canada, acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.”

-Article XI, Articles of Confederation

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Inconvenient Aristocracy

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On This Day: the continental congress finalizes the articles of confederation, and everyone goes, "Whew, that was tough. Good thing we don't have to ever do that again!"

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The Constitution: Articles of Confederation

Now that you have an understanding about the declaration of independence, the document that the Second Continental Congress drafted listing the grievances with Great Britian and declare that the thirteen colonies ought to be free and independent states, absolved of allegiance from the British Crown, and severing all political connections to the state of Great Britain. ��As the activities on the…