Question

In this correspondence, what weakness in the Articles of Confederation is Robert Morris explaining?

Answer 1

A) the lack of a tax enforcement power

Choices:

A) the lack of a tax enforcement power

B) the lack of an independent judiciary

C) the lack of a centralized military power

D) the requirement of unanimity of all states to amend the Articles

Answer 2

Robert Morris highlight that Federal government's inability to levy taxes and tariffs make the articles of confederation really weak.

Without this power, there a couple of problems that will be faced by the federal government :

- It become extremely hard for the federal government to plan their budget for their future operation

- It make it is really easy for the states to undermine the power of federal government since the federal government does not have enough fund to fund the military in order to keep the states tinder control.