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11/30/16

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Summary why the Articles Of Confederation failed:

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Summary why the Articles Of Confederation failed:

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The Articles Of Confederation failed, so it had some strengths but plenty weaknesses, first I'm going to state some of the postitives to the articles. One positive is the congress could print money, but a negative to that is they could also borrow money from the states. On the other hand another positive is they could settle conflicts between states. This would help bring peace. Another Strength is they could declare war and peace. Another Strength is the Articles protected the liberties of people. Now I'm going to explain the plenty of weaknesses the Articles had. One weakness is the government had no army. The government was not getting payed and could not afford to pay for an army. Another weakness is the government was one single branch which made the government more likely to become a tyranny. Another weakness is most of the power was held to the states, which made it hard for congress to take action in certain events even though they could settle conflicts between the states. A major weakness was no taxes. Without taxes the government had no money for congress they could not do basic needs for the government. The last and final weakness that's aware is the government had no President or National Court System. Without this they could not enforce or declare certain laws.

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NO National Court System

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Only Congress could declare war or peace.

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-Strong state government ;most power was held to the states and  congress had little power.
-Had power to declare war and peace; when in war they could ask for war or declare war somewhere else.
-Could settle conflicts between states;when there was a conflict they could help reason with the states.
-Power to print money-could print the money they needed.

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-No taxes; they could not make money for basic needs.
How could this be improved?
By giving tax to the people of the new country. But not too big of a tax to not make the poeple mad.
-Most power was to the states; they did not want a tyranny.
How could this be improved?
Having an equal amount of power or having both congress and states have not more power than the other
-Had no judicial branch;could not enforce
How could this be improved?
By making an Judicial branch to help enforce laws and rules to the public.
-Each state had one vote in congress-regardless of population, which made the states angry
How could this improved?
By making each state have a certain amount of votes based on there population.
- No Army- no army to protect nation but could
declare peace.
How could this be improved?
By having an army, but this was a problem because had little money because of no taxes.