The Original Intentions for the United States

The original intentions for the United States were for all the states to be in one big alliance not a country. Every state was to send two to seven representatives then those representatives go meet up with all the other representatives and discuss. They would say the states should do this or stop doing that, but they had no real power. The only thing that the alliance as an institution had control over was defense and commerce. There was nothing that would fill the roles of (branches) because that would have been handled by the states the problems occurred in, but as you know this is not how the United States came to be.