Question

The Articles of Confederation did not provide a good basis for government primarily because ______.

• A. They established no legislative branch for the national government
• B. They gave the federal government no power to raise money from the states
• C. They put too much power in the hands of the federal judiciary
• D. They reserved no individual rights to the states of the Union
• E. They required a unanimous vote of all the states to pass any legislation

Answer 1

The correct option is B They gave the federal government no power to raise money from the states

The Article of Confederation did not provide a good basis for government primarily because they gave the federal government no power to raise money from the states. The lack of any strength at all in the central government, especially its lack of the power to raise money, was the primary reason the framers wrote a new governing document, the Constitution.