Use the links below to help you understand what type of government the Articles of Confederation created. In your comment, tell what one weakness of them was and why it was a weakness.
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The government was weak.Efforts to make it stronger failed.
There was a need of unity.There waws a need of unity because everyone wanted to be independent.But no one really understood that being independent can lead to difficulty or troubleness.So they finally agreed to be united and agree on things as a team.
There was a need of unity.There was a need of unity because everyone wanted to be independent.But no one really understood that being independent can lead to difficulty or trouble-ness.So they finally agreed to be united and agree on things as a team.
One of the weaknesses was the resulting government because efforts to make it stronger failed. A convention called in May 1787 to rewrite the articles of confederation decided to draft an entirely new constitution.
When they wrote the Articles of Confederation there was no executive branch. Judicial branch were very limited. The government was weak. When they tried to make it stronger they failed.
The government was very poor because they had nobody to represent/and be protected by.
Some weakness were that the government did not let all people be free
it gave them bad laws
The government failed to be strong.
Government had no right to lay or collect taxes because the government was already short of money
The articles were to give them a unified government.Their weakness was that they still needed to get another document was needed.
They had no representation in the colonies
bad laws
bad laws and hardships
There was a need of unity.There was a need of unity because everyone wanted to be independent.But no one really understood that being independent can lead to difficulty or trouble-ness.So they finally agreed to be united and agree on things as a team.
Congress had limited power and could pass laws but couldn’t get the states to comply with it. Because the states would be ignoring Congress and Congress felt weak.
The Articles of Confederation were made to give colonies their own sense of government, Congress had limited power, there was no executive or judicial branch. This caused the colonies to not be united as one.