NO POWER TO TAX - As a result they had to rely on states to collect and foward taxes, whitch the state were reluctant
to do.The central government was always short of money.
CONGRESS HAS NO POWER TO ENFORCE ITS LAWS - Congress depended on the states to enfore it's laws, which they rarely did.
THERE WAS NO EXECUTIVE BRANCH - coordinating the work of the national government was almost impossible.
NINE STATES HAD TO APPROVE ANY LAWS BEFORE IT COULD PASS - Most laws were difficult, if not impossible, to enact.
PRESERVING RIGHTS - In most states, only white men who were 21 and older could vote.
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT - Jan. 1776 new hampshire became the first coloney to organize as a state and craft a constitution.
A CONFEDERATION OF STATES - In 1777 the congress detailed these plans in a document called the articals of confederation,
the first contitution of the United States of Amarica.