>>2165952First, the Articles of Confederation didn't work, hence why they were done away with and replaced by the Constitution. Second, Washington hated the Confederation because he saw how ineffective they were at maintaining order; a 2 second Google will give you a list of his problems.
Third, we did rebel against the United Kingdom, and if we had lost, it would have been completely within the rights of the UK to brand the founding fathers as traitors and make sure that they were never revered.
Fourth, the revolutionary war was different from the civil because the revolutionary war was about establishing voting rights to disenfranchised citizens, while the civil war was about making sure certain citizens remained disenfranchised indefinitely.
Learn your own fucking history before making retarded arguments.
