Articles of Confrederation
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages
~ included a unified army for the states
~ set up a legislature where each state had one delegate to vote
~ was able to build and control an army
~had the ability to deal with foreign countries on behalf of the states
Disadvantages
~ could not enforce laws (states had the right to ignore them)
~ national government couldn't tax
~ no executive or judicial branch
~ caused the states to suffer economically especially when states started to tax one another