The Federalists

"When the resolution for independence was finally voted in July 1776, 
however, a companion resolution for drafting a "plan of confederation"
was made and a committee appointed to draw it up. Chaired by Franklin's
friend John Dickinson, the committee began with the draft that Franklin
had offered that year before, and on July 12,1776. Dickinson presented 
a revised "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union" for 
consideration. Reflecting the spirit of the times, the document that 
emerged called for strictly limited government with no executive or 
judiciary and a single legislative chamber in which all the newly 
independent states would have equal votes, as they had had in the 
Continental Congress; in other major respects it conformed to the
earlier draft."

Through what seemed to be a long process Franklins revised "Articles of 

Confederation and Perpetual Union" was taken into consideration to become 

the basis of government. As it was being considered it became clear that 

the state was given more power than Congress and had no executive or 

judicial branches, which proposed a huge problem for the futre of the 

Union. After about six years of delegation and revisions the Articles of 

Confederation was ratified in 1781 a basis of the government throughout 

the revolutionary war and post war. In 1788 the constitution replaced the 

Articles of Confederation because it had a more complete basis of 

government for the "Union".