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Break out Rooms:List of the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

Strengths :








Weaknesses:

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Strengths :

1- Congress could declare war, and start an army and navy

2-They could make peace and sign treaties

3-They can borrow money

4-They can organize a post office

Weaknesses:

1- They had no power to draft soldiers

2-They had no power to enforce treaties

3-They couldn't raise taxes to pay borrowed money back

4-They had no chief executive (president)

5-They had no national court system

6-They had no power to regulate interstate commerce (trade)

7-They had no national currency

8-It was difficult to pass laws, they needed a 2/3 vote

9-They needed a unanimous vote to change articles

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strengths: could pass laws that affected all states, had the power to manage Native Americans affairs, Congress had the power to deal with foreign affairs, declare war, and sign treaties

Weakness: no national Court, no president or executive branch, no army or navy, no national money, national government could not tax, Congress had no power to regulate trades between the states, each state could tax trade between states, could not force stay to obey the laws

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