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☆☆☆☆☆True. Under the Articles of Confederation the government had no power to collect taxes.
Some northern states made slavery against the law.
They learned about freedom, cooperation, and compromise
The African-Americans tried to escape from the South because the South had slave states. They tried to get to the North because those were free states.
it was not backed by gold silver or land
It was not backed by gold, silver, or land.
Wrote their own constitutions.
James Madison
Representative democracy has an advantage in comparison to direct democracy, because the more citizens you have, the more difficult it becomes for them all to get together and make a collective decision about anything. It is not impossible, and even in our representative system we sometimes hold a referendum so that everybody can make their wishes known, however, it is not feasible to hold a referendum every time the government needs to make a decision about anything.
Elected officials could study issues carefully.
They had to fight in the Revolutionary War as well as help pay for it.
Congress depended on donations from the states to operate
