Articles of Confederation
advantages vs. disadvantages
Advantages
- declared war & make peace
- coin & borrow money
- to make deals with foreign countries and sign treaties
- opperate post offices
- states would respect citizens and laws from other states
Disadvantages
- there was no power to generate revenue
- congress had no power approval of 9 states to have a law passed
- no executive branch
- required all 13 states to approve a law
- no national army
I believe that the designers created a government with a weak central government because they were scared that Great Britain would take control again and be overly controlling like before.