Sunday, September 2, 2012

What were some weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

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  1. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy.

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  2. The weaknesses pf the Articles of Confederation were due to the national government being created weak. This disabled Congress to tax states, enforce trade, and deal with foreign policies; Congress could not enforce laws upon states either.
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  3. Some of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were caused by the creation of a weak national government. This caused raised taxes, trades, and handeling foreign policies to not be enforced.

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  4. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. Because of this weak national government they could not: raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or have a way to carry out the laws passed by Congress.

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  5. No power over the state governments and their citizens, no money and no power to get it, unrenforceable trade agreements.

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  6. Some of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were when they created a weak national state. Because of this they couldn't handle foreign policies, raise taxes, trade.

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  7. Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation included the creation of a weak government so as not to allow raised taxes, trade agreements, and competition among states.

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  8. Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation was the creation of a weak government.It did not allow raised taxes, trade agreements, and competition among states.

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  9. The Articles of Confederation gave too much power to the states and not enough to the central government. They created a weak central government, under which the states could not operate effectively as a single nation. It Didn't a separate executive department to carry out and enforce the acts of Congress and a national court system to interpret the meaning of laws.

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  10. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy.

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  11. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government and could not create taxes, regulate trade, or handle foreign affairs

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  12. The articles of confederation could Not Create taxes regulate trade or handle foreign affairs.

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  13. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. Because of this weak national government they could not: raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or have a way to carry out the laws passed by Congress

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  14. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government and it could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or deal with foreign policy.

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  15. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy.

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  16. Some of the weaknesses of the articles of confederation were that it didn't allow raised taxes, trade agreements and competition among states.

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  17. The Articles of Confederation were weak because they could not handle foreign policy, raise taxes, or enforce trade agreements.

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  18. The Articles of Confederation were weak because they could not handle foreign policy, raise taxes, or enforce trade agreements.

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  19. The Articles of Confederation were weak because they couldn't handle foreign policies, raise taxes, or trade.

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  20. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy. Also they had no money or power to overthrow it.

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  21. The Articles of Confederation made the government weak because they did not have power to enforce taxes, had no power over the state governments and their citizens, and no money and no power to get the money they needed.

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  22. Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation was the creation of a weak government.It did not allow raised taxes, trade agreements, and competition among states

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  23. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy.

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  24. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government, which made the government not be able to raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or have a way to carry out the laws passed by Congress.

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  25. Most of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were caused by a weak National Government.Which disabled congress to tax states,enforce trade,and deal with foreign policies.

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  26. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government, which made the government not be able to raise taxes, handle foreign policies. Carry out the laws passed by Congress

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  27. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not raise taxes, enforce trades, or handle foreign policy.

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  28. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government, because it made where they could not tax, make laws that the state had to obey and to handle foreign policy.

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  29. The Articles of Confederation created a weak government that kept government from raising taxes, handling foreign polices, and enforcing trades. They also had no power or money to overthrow it.

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  30. The Articles could not enforce trade, levy taxes, and that made a weak national government.

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  31. The Articles of Confederation created a weak government because it kept from taxes being raised and enforcing trades. They also had no power to over throw it.

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  32. They didn't have enough power to get money. They didnt have power over state governments and their citizens, and they created a weak national government.

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  33. 1) The national government was to weak. Some examples were they couldn't form an army in form of protection.
    2) The state government has more power than the national government.

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  34. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. So they could not raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or have a way to carry out the laws passed by Congress.

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  35. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government by giving the states more power than the government had. The government had no control over taxes or what the states do.

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  36. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government and the government had absolutely no power over taxes or what anyone did.

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  37. The Articles of Confederation was too weak to enforce taxes, laws, or deal with foreign policies. Overall, a new document needed to be created.

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  38. The Aticles of Confederation created a weak national governmet and could not enforce laws or taxes

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  39. The Articles could not enforce trade, levy taxes, so therefore it created a weak government.

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  40. The Articles of Confederation were created as a weaker form of government. It could not enforce laws or taxes.

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  41. Mariah Chavez- The Articles of Confederation weaknesses was the weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle a foreign policy.

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  42. The Articles of Confederation was weak in its national government. It couldnt inforce laws are taxes.

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  43. the weaknesses included the near powerless national government; it could not raise taxes, enforce trade, or deal with foreign policy.

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  44. Couldn't inforce laws or taxes, unenforcable trade agreements, unfair competition among the states, threats to citizens' rights to property, etc.

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  45. what were some weaknesses of the Articles of confederation?
    It had no army to protect from outside forces.

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  46. The Articles of Confederation had a weak national government it couldn't raise taxes,enforce the trades,or deal with foreign policy.

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  47. it couldn't enforce taxes and couldn't deal with foreign policy

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  48. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government.which they could not raise taxes, deal with trade, and foreign policy.

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  49. A few of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were: Their was no power to get it, no power over the state's government and their citizens, and unfair competition among the states.

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  50. Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were caused by the creation of a weak national government. Leading to them not being able to raise taxes, trades, and handeling foreign policies to not be enforced.

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  51. Some of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were that they had no power over the state government and their citizens, unforceable trade agreements, unfair competition among the states, and threats to citizens right to property.

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  52. Weaknesses of the Articles were that the government was made weak so they could not enforce laws,taxes,property,ect.

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  53. some of the weaknesses of the articles of confederation were caused by the creation of a weak government. this makes it hard for them to raise taxes,trades,and handling foreign policies to not be enforced

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  54. some of the weaknesses of the Articles of Condfederation were they couldnt raise taxes,trade, and problems handling foreign policies because of a weak national government.

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  55. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. That couldn't raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or carry out the laws passed by Congress.

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  56. When the Articles of Confederation was created, it also created a weak national government. This caused Congress to not be able to tax, make or enforce laws, regulate trade, protect citizens property rights, or follow foreign agreements.

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  57. When they were create it created a weak national government that caused congress to not be able to enforce taxes, or laws, regulate trade etc.

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  58. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that couldn't enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy

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  59. the weaknesses of the articles of confederation were that they could not tax, no power over state government and citizens, unemforcable trade agreements

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  60. The weaknesses of the article of confederation are no power over the state government and the citizens. No money and no power to get it (no taxes). Unendurable trade agreement.

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  61. The weaknesses of the article of confederation were that they couldn't raised taxes, and they couldn't handle foreign policies, or trade.

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  62. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that had trouble with enforcing trades, raising taxes, and handling foreign policy.

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  63. Confederation created a weak national government and could not create taxes, regulate trade, or handle foreign affairs YarraaMean?

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  64. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. They couldn't raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or trade.

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  65. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. Which caused Congress not to be able to tax, make or enforce laws, regulate trade, protect citizens property rights, or follow foreign agreements.

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  66. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. Because of this weak national government they could not: raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or have a way to carry out the laws passed by Congress.

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  67. The Articles of Confederation created a weak government that kept government from raising taxes, handling foreign polices and enforcing trades.

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  68. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that kept them from raising taxes, handling foreign policies, or enforcing trades.

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  69. Some weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were that the government couldn't not raise taxes, handle foreign policies, and protect citizens rights.

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  70. The Articles of Confederation created a government unable to levy taxes, enforce trade, or deal with foreign policy.

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  71. The Articles of Confederation created a weak government that couldn't raise taxes, protect the citizens rights, or handle foregin policies.

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  72. The Articles of Confederation was too weak to enforce taxes, laws, or deal with foreign policies.

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  73. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. They couldn't raise taxes or protect the citizens rights.

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  74. The Articles of Confederaton created a weak government. Because they didmt have the power to raise taxes or handle foreign policies and they couldnt enforce laws.

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  75. The Articles of Confederation created a government that was weak so it did not have the power to raise taxes, protect the citizen's rights, handle foreign policies, or enforce/pass laws.

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  76. Some of the weakness of the Articles of Confedrarion was that it gave more power to the states than to the central goverment, and all the states could not work as one nation.

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  77. Having created a weak national government, the Articles of Confederation could not raise taxes, enforce trades, or handle foreign policies.

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  78. It was a weak government. It can't regulate state trade, and it can't levy taxes.

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  79. When the Articles of Confederation was created, it also created a weak national government. This caused Congress to not be able to tax, make or enforce laws, regulate trade, protect citizens property rights, or follow foreign agreements

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  80. The Articles of Confederation had many weaknesses. It created a weak nation, raised taxes, it threatend citizens right to property, unenforcable agreements, there was no power over the state government and their citizens, & no money and no power to get it.

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  81. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. This made it where it couldn't enforce trade with other countries, couldn't levy taxes, and it had no power over the states. The states sometimes refused to give the government the money it needed to pay off war debt.

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  82. The articles of confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy. The colonies needed a stronger gov't.

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  83. They didnt raise taxes, enforce trades, or control foreign policies.

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  84. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy.

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  85. The Articles of Confederaton created a weak government.They didnt have the power to raise taxes or handle foreign policies and they couldnt enforce laws.

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  86. the articles of confederation created a weak goverment that could not raise taxes, enforce trades, or handle foreign policy .

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  87. They created a weak national government that could not make takes or enforce trades or foreign policy's

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  88. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. This made it impossible for the Articles to raise taxes, enforce laws, and handle foreign policies. The colonies needed a stronger government to withhold their needs.

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  89. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy.

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  90. The weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation created a weak government.It did not allow trade agreements,raised taxes,and competition among states.

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  91. The Weakness in the artical of confederation created a weak government. It did not allow tread agreement, raised taxes, and competition among states.

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  92. The Articles of Confederation was weak because it couldn't enforce laws, taxes, or deal with foreign policies.

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  93. The articles of Confederation created a weak governemt that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or enforce laws.

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  94. the article of confederation gave too much power to the states and not enough to the central goverment essentially, they created a weak central goverment, under the states could not operate effectively as a single nation.

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  95. the articles of confederation were weak and couldn't enforce trade, it raised taxes, and it couldn't protect the citizens

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  96. The Articles of Confederation gave too much power to the states and not to the government,which created a weak government and they couldn't tax.

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  97. The Articles of Confederation created a government that was weak so it did not have the power to raise taxes, protect the citizen's rights, handle foreign policies, or enforce/pass laws.

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  98. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. This made it impossible for the Articles to raise taxes, enforce laws, and handle foreign policies. The colonies needed a stronger government to withhold their needs.

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  99. The Articles of Confederation were weak because they could not handle foreign policy, raise taxes, or enforce trade agreements.

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  100. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. Because of this weak national government they could not: raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or have a way to carry out the laws passed by Congress.

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  101. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government and it could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or deal with foreign policy.

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  102. No power over the state governments and their citizens, no money and no power to get it, unrenforceable trade agreements. can not put a tax on people. can't force people to obey them.

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  103. Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation included the creation of a weak government so as not to allow raised taxes, and trade agreements.

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  104. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government. This made it where it couldn't enforce trade with other countries, couldn't levy taxes and it had no power over the states. The states sometimes refused to give the government the money it needed to pay off war debt.

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  105. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government, which made the government not be able to raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or have a way to carry out the laws passed by congress.

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  106. Created a weak national government, which couldnt tax, mess with any forign policy, or enforce law.

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  107. It could not enforce laws , handle foreign policies , pass taxes or enforce trade agreements.

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  108. The Articles of Conferderation created a weak national government which didn't allow them to raise taxes, handle foreign policies, or carry out laws passed by congress.

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  109. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government because it didn't allow the gov't to tax, oversee foreign policies or enforce laws passed by congress.

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  110. Created a weak national government cause government couldn't tax over seas policies and enforce laws passed my congress

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  111. The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were that it created a weak national government, could not levy taxes, and could not handle foreign policies.

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  112. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that could not enforce trades, raise taxes, or handle foreign policy.

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  113. Some weaknesses were that they couldn't tax and they didn't have control over state government.

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  114. The Articles of Confederation created a weak government that kept government from raising taxes, handling foreign polices, and enforcing trades. They also had no power or money to overthrow it.

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  115. it ngave the states to much power and weakend the national government.

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  116. The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government by giving the states more power than the government had. The government had no control over taxes or what the states do.

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