"Our Debts being unfunded and unprovided for, the Interest cannot be paid. Those therefore who trusted us in the Hour of Distress are defrauded. To expect that under such C…

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"Our Debts being unfunded and unprovided for, the Interest cannot be paid. Those therefore who trusted us in the Hour of Distress are defrauded. To expect that under such Circumstances others will confide in the Government would be Folly, and to expect that Foreigners will Trust a Government which has no Credit with its own Citizens must be madness. The whole Weight therefore of the War must be borne in the present Moment. . . . "

- Robert Morris to John Hanson, president of Congress, 11 Feb. 1782
In this correspondence, what weakness in the Articles of Confederation is Robert Morris explaining?
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