The Fundamental Defects of American Confederacy System

2. The reason why the American people can accept the expansion of the federal central power can be understood from the "disadvantages of the confederacy system" mentioned above. In addition, there are other reasons: (1) the dual character of the American nation. Early North American immigrants abandoned everything and competed in the new world on the basis of equality by virtue of their own abilities, creating an equal and independent American nation without hierarchy. However, the harsh natural conditions and the revenge of native Indians forced the early immigrants to rely on each other and help each other, forging the concept of American national collectivism. This constitutes the dual character of the American nation, which is not only suitable for people to accept the central government to safeguard the collective (overall) interests, but also to maintain the tradition of local governments to safeguard individual interests. (2) In the anti-British colonial rule, colonial thinkers and politicians have begun to explore the future direction. 1767, American political thinker Dickinson put forward the idea of federalism, and Jefferson and Adams also put forward this idea. The propaganda of these North American thinkers and politicians laid the ideological foundation for the United States to implement federalism. For the above reasons, American politicians at that time thought that the Confederate Regulations should be replaced by a centralized constitution. Madison, a famous politician, thinks that the Confederacy Ordinance makes the government incompetent, overlapping institutions, decentralized power and extremely inefficient. In order to establish the authority of the central government, john adams, alexander hamilton and james madison presided over the formulation of the federal constitution, which was passed on September 1787, expanding the authority of the new central government, enabling it to truly protect "life, freedom and property" and legalizing the functions of this powerful government.