MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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The President
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The Supreme Court
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Congress
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The States
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Articles of Confederation created a Nation that was “a league of friendship and perpetual union, ” but it was the state governments that had most of the power under the Articles, with little power given to the central government.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under the Articles of Confederation, the power of the national government was exclusively centered in the Congress.
Detailed explanation-4: -Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.