After the end of the Revolutionary War our United States was all but united. Due to the Articles of the Confederation, written by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, state governments had more power than national government. Congress could only declare war, deal with foreign nations, print money and run the postal service. Congress could set the taxes that the states would collect. This form of government would not make our country strong. If the federal government could not collect taxes there would be no way to build a navy or pay back debt owed to foreign countries. Other countries were taking advantage of the US's weakened state. Congress asked each state to send delegates to what would be known as the Constitutional Convention. Within days the Convention threw out the Articles and began drafting our Constitution.