the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation created a one-house legislature as the Confederation's main institution, making the government a unicameral system of government. In addition, Congress could settle conflicts among the states, issue coins, borrow money, and make treaties with other countries and with Native Americans. Congress could also ask the states for money and soldiers.
congress could settle conflicts among the states, make coins,borrow money and make treaties with other countries and native americans.
they sucked the power
the articles of confederation was America's first gov., that terribly failed because it said every state could print it's own money, there was no system of courts and no main leader.
The Articles of Confederation was the early U.S. constitution (1781 - 89) under the government by the Continental Congress, replaced in 1787 by the United States Constitution. It provided for a confederation of sovereign states and gave the Congress power to regulate foreign affairs, war, and the postal service, to control Indian affairs, and to borrow money.
National government with limited powers. Congress could settle conflicts among states, make coins, and borrow money. States had the power to refuse requests, and did not have a president or court system.
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first written form of the United States of America. Just like how you make rules for a game, the articles did not work out very well. It gave the states way too much power and they were more like independent countries. The central government had no control over them at all. The problem was that the states could not work together well. There was a conflict with money because each state had minted its own different kind of money. The main conflict is very similar to tying your shoes, if you don't you can trip and fall on your face. That's basically what the Articles did. The states weren't tied together so the government fell flat on its face.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the American government was not even granted the power to tax as a way to raise revenue, very much unlike the American government under the US Constitution. The only way they could raise funds was by asking for money from the states, from foreign powers, or by selling off lands in the west.
Yes, the states were basically 13 separate nations with their own laws, money, and army. The Articles of Confederations barely tied them together.
The Articles of Confederation. But this system failed because it tied the states together loosely, and for the most part they were mini-countries, having each their own money systems and trade laws.