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Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government could: 1) Declare war on another country. 2) Raise an army. 3) Develop treaties with other countries. 4) Can allow new states to join the US with a 9/13 vote. And rawing up treaties that If the government under the Articles of Confederation was so ineffective, but why were there no changes made to improve it? All the states had to agree in order to pass an amendment to the Articles and that's the reasoning why.
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