Our government has been shaped and shaped from an unsuccessful government to a highly sufficient government. There are many contributors to our government. Major contributors include: The Articles of Confederation, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, early state constitutions, the Annapolis Convention, and Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (the Preamble). In 1754, during the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress created the Articles of Confederations, as a format for a United Government. The Articles of Confederation bound the 13 states together to address common problems, but in practice they did more than provide a legal basis for the limited authority the Continental Congress already exercised. Each state had only one vote, regardless of its population. Nine of the thirteen states voted to pass a bill dealing with war, treaties, currency, finance, or the military. The Articles of Confederation posed various problems due to the limited authority granted to the central government. Despite its weakness, the Articles of Confederation functioned as a government. In creating the United States, the Articles of Confederation gave the colonies an identity for the first time. In 1776, numerous documents surfaced that affected our current government. 1774-1776 The Annapolis Convention serves as the colony's government during the Revolutionary War. In 1774 the Conference of Committees arose throughout the colonies and was called upon to support Boston. In response to the closure of ports and the increase in the occupying military force. Massachutes requested a meeting to consider joint action. The Convention met in Massachutes, after a year the convention ...... middle of paper ...... of humanity. The Preamble describes the general purposes of the Constitution and establishes the general purpose of the Constitution, which "is to form a more perfect Union." This is the main reason the Constitution was written: to correct the flaws in the Articles of Confederation. The preamble also included Locke's assertion that people have the right to overthrow their government, when it abuses their basic rights. These are the documents that pushed the American government to become what it is today. The Preamble, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, Common Sense and more, each has had enough of its own impact on our society to know that this is not how government should be. Over time, we have taken previous governments and extracted the good parts of them so that our government.