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As you can see the weaknesses are far greater than the strengths. The greatest weakness was congress missing the ability to collect taxes. Without this they could not raise an army, which prevented them from informing laws, which led to the states passing off laws a mere recommendations, the list could go on. This is why the constitutional convention was held, the people longed for a stronger central government, and they finally got it with the United States Constitution

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.The weakness of not being able to raise taxes was very bad because without money congress couldn't raise an army, pay off debts and without an army they couldn't enforce laws

. And the problem with states running themselves was that states didn't care for each other. They only watched out for themselves, so if a gigantic attack was sprung on America they would only have small, spread out militias to defend themselves

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.Congress declaring war was good because it took less time then today, where the president has to check with congress before declaring war

.It was great that congress could create a state because they had so much land to expand to and more and more people would be coming to the united states

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. One clear weakness was the fact that there was no judicial and presidential branch
. Congress could not create an army or raise taxes
. The states regulated themselves almost acting as small independent countries in an alliance than one whole country

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. One clear strength of the articles was that the government would not be able to oppress the people, like England did
. Congress could declare war
.  Allowed Congress to create states, but only if a certain number of people were willing to settle there.