the articles of confederation was the first document to loosely govern the 13 states during the war with great britain the fledgling country nearly went through a second revolution at the end of the revolutionary war when disgruntled soldiers found out that they would not get paid for their services because the continental congress could not force the states to pay taxes or contribute to the salaries of the soldiers using the information in this lesson as well as additional information from the internet summarize in an essay the dilemma that occurred after the war and explain how the founders of the country came to the decision to write a constitution that could hold the states together and present a strong united front to the rest of the world your essay should be about 200 words