Articles of Confederation
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages
- Included a unified army for the states
- Set up a legislature where each state had 1 vote
- Was able to build and control an army
- Had the ability to deal with foreign countries on behalf of the states
Disadvantages
- The national gov. couldn't force the states to obey its laws
- It didn't have the power to tax
- It didn't have the power to enforce laws
- Congress lacked strong and steady leadership
- There wasn't no system army or navy
- There wasn't no system of national courts
- Each state could issue its own paper money
- Each state could put tarriffs on trade b/w states
Why the designers created a weak government?
I think the designers created a weak central government, so that the federal government wouldn't abuse its power over the states. I also the weak central government was created so there wouldn't be any uprisings from the people againist them.