Bell Work 1.20.26 - Fill-in Blank - Articles of Confederation and Kitchen Nightmares

The Failing Pizza Shop: Articles of Confederation Allegory

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The Failing Pizza Shop

Imagine a pizza shop owner who runs his business like America operated under the --- Constitution Articles of Confederation Declaration of Independence . This owner has --- complete zero unlimited authority over his employees—the cooks show up whenever they feel like it, the delivery drivers refuse to follow routes, and nobody agrees on how much to charge for pizzas. The employees don't listen to him because they --- support disagree with admire his leadership and don't feel any --- competition unity conflict with him or each other. They're all just doing their own thing, trying to make money for themselves even though they can see the business isn't working. Each employee basically does whatever they want, and the owner can't --- force allow encourage anyone to do anything because he gave up all his --- money power employees when he opened the shop. He can't even collect enough money from his employees to pay the --- employees rent taxes because they all ignore his requests for contributions. Just like the --- fifty thirteen seven states under the Articles, every employee in this pizza shop has complete --- control independence discipline , which sounds great until you realize nothing gets done and the whole business is --- thriving collapsing expanding .

Gordon Ramsay to the Rescue

The pizza shop is days away from shutting down—customers are furious, employees are fighting, and there's no money left—just like America in --- 1776 1787 1791 was broke, chaotic, and falling apart. Then --- Thomas Jefferson Gordon Ramsay George Washington walks through the door. He doesn't just give advice; he creates an entirely new --- menu system recipe with clear rules, defined roles, and actual authority for the owner to manage his business. Ramsay's new plan gives the owner the power to hire and fire, set prices, create standards, and make everyone work together as one --- state team company instead of thirteen separate operations. This is exactly what --- Benjamin Franklin James Madison Alexander Hamilton and the Framers did at the --- Continental Congress Constitutional Convention Federal Convention —they scrapped the weak Articles of Confederation and created the --- Bill of Rights Constitution Federalist Papers , a completely new plan that gave the --- state federal local government real power to collect --- votes taxes delegates , regulate --- states commerce militias , and actually govern the nation before it collapsed completely.