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Entry: The Death of American Empire Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_death_of_american_empire#1660 Post contents: "The truth is, the U.S. Constitution no longer exists. It is long gone, and nobody is particularly concerned." If that is a factually accurate statement, then the only legal stance to take is that the original governing structure of these United States springs back into legality. The Articles of Confederation, established in 1781, was shoved aside in 1789 when a sufficient number of states ratified the new Constitution. Ten different presidents served under the Articles of Confederation. Far from being a badly designed scheme of government, the Articles served as the structure to give order and coherence to the Revolutionary War even before ratification of sufficient states to bring the articles into legal existence in 1781. Its crowning glories were the defeat of monarchical governance in the person of George III and the enactment of the Northwest Ordinance. Apparently the Congress of the Confederation met for what turned out to be a final meeting on October 10, 1788, but never adjourned sine die as it would have were it to have intended to disappear into history. In any case, a fallback structure exists that could provide a federal structure if a need arose. [For the know-nothings, the Articles of Confederation was not the government of the Confederate States of America.] Sent at: 2008 05 11