There Articles of Confederation were really quite overrated, bombing for good reason. Without a judicial branch you lose checks and balances, and don't have legal precedent that can build on itself. That would be like trying to obtain transaction finality with one confirmation and a difficulty adjustment that never changes. Our views differ quite a bit with the Articles. They failed. The Constitution never did. There wasn't a central government of any relevant standing at the time. Many states rulers liked their fiefdom, and didn't want to decentralize. They didn't want to relinquish any power. Didn't want a country at all really. But in microcosm, people finally realized that wasn't in the nation's interest at large. By the end of the Articles, we got a pretty good idea what the people thought of it after Shay's Rebellion. What's strange is you think that over time, which is all that matters, that these autonomous state governments would've directionally become what? Ideal Austrian communes, bursting with freedom and prosperity. Yeah right, they would've become autocracies of the worst kind, because that's what every man is inside, and it's up to the design pattern of a system or government to limit and sublimate it. . The Civil War and bitcoin hard fork share more similarities than the Article's era. You know that and are just being difficult. Admit it. The Article's era is more similar to the era when the Bitcoin Foundation was running, before it was dissolved.