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What principle weakness in the Articles of Confederation led to the creation of the Constitution?

A. The federal system set up by the Articles of Confederation meant that the national government was Supreme to the individual state governments and Americans worried that the country was too much like England.
B. The laws passed by the national government under the Articles of Confederation tax Americans heavily which angered those who had never wanted to break from Britain so new laws had to be written.
C. The limited powers granted to the national government by the Articles of Confederation make collecting tax money, passing and enforcing laws, and regulating trade either difficult or impossible, so major changes were necessary.
D. The core system established by the Articles of Confederation did not give any other branch of government the ability to check the power of the judicial branch, and people soon realize that the balance of power needed to be restored.

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C makes the most sense.
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Answer:

C. The limited powers granted to the national government by the Articles of Confederation make collecting tax money, passing and enforcing laws, and regulating trade either difficult or impossible, so major changes were necessary.

Step-by-step explanation:

We can affirm that the articles of the Confederation had several negative characteristics that did not allow the development of the country and did not favor its correct functioning, these characteristics were:

  1. The Articles formed a weak Confederation, in which, the States possessed more power than the central government
  2. The validity of the Articles of the Confederation depended on the ratification of the thirteen states, which took a long time and became a long and complex process
  3. The Continental Congress, could take directions, but had no powers to enforce them
  4. The Continetnal Congress had no power to collect taxes.
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