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: Leanne Keene, French ambassador, arrives from Paris to tell you France needs the money it lent the colonies during the Revolution immediately. Can the Articles of Confederation solve this problem? Why/Why not? Explain

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No, the Articles of the Confederation cannot solve this problem because they did not give the federal government the power to tax and raise revenues to pay off national debt.

This is one of the main reasons why the Articles of Confederation were replaced by the US Constitution, the other being the fact that these articles did not allow the federal government to keep an standing army either.

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