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☆☆☆☆☆Reports of the living costs, non-priority debts, priority debts and income are required of the Congress to publish a statement of all expenditures and income.
federal
federalism
confederacy confederacy
The united States under the Articles was not effectively governed - that's exactly why the Articles were replaced by the Constitution.
There was no national economy - or a currency that was uniform throughout the land. America was, and still is, a land of trade. It was curtailed because of no uniformity in exchange.
There was no equal recourse to justice - a famous early case is about the farmer in Pennsylvania whose geese could not be marketed effectively in Maryland, just a few miles away, because there was a state import duty.
There was no method of agreement on development of new territories, or of improvements in transportation and communication.
There was no equality in legislation - each state, no matter how large or small in wealth and population, had the same vote in the national legislature.
The system broke down because there was little incentive to make it work.
laws
unitary
absolute monarchy
The king of Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarch who has great power in the exercise of government.
Japan officially operates under a constitutional monarchywith a parliamentary democracy.
confederacy
Choices in products and services, the profit motive, private ownership of property.
FEDERAL
False
U.S. Representatives serve two-year terms. U.S. Senators serve six-years terms. Members of Congress of both chambers have no term limit.
