Question

Which of the following are reasons why the Articles of Confederation were unsuccessful?

All states were needed for amending.

Congress could not collect taxes

Each state had only one vote

All of the above

Answer 1

Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government had no way to create revenue, because it did not have the power to tax; state laws and governments stood superior to the federal government, so the feds had no enforcement authority to make the states comply with its laws; each state could make its own treaties with other countries, print or coin its own currency, make its own trade regulations against or with any other state, did not have to give full faith and credit to the laws of the other states