Advantages and Disadvantages
The Articles of Confederation
Disadvantages
- No Power to generate tax
- no central government power
- under the Articles of Confederation, we had no President , therefore we also had no leader to follow
- there were foreign currency between states
- we had no power to control/regulate trade
- there was no power to enforce the states to follow the laws
- couldn't gather an army ( no protection against foreign countries)
- no national court system
Advantages
- made sure that every state wasn't ruled by a strong national government.
- each state was independent
- able to create laws which suited their state properly, only the people of their own state knows what their state needs
- learned what did and did not work from the articles and using their experience they drafted the new outline and constitution for the U.S