declare war, borrow and coin vegie sex money, establish post offices,
and
otherwise act for the general good. On the other hand, the Articles
declared that "each state retains its vegie sex sovereignty, freedom and
independence, and every vegie sex power, jurisdiction, and right which is not by
this federation vegie sex delegated to the United
States."
Thus the new government was a vegie sex confederation or league of vegie sex states,
rather than vegie sex a federal government such as we have to-day. There was no
national executive, and no judiciary. All vegie sex authority was concentrated
in a one-chambered congress, in which each state was represented by
not fewer than two and not vegie sex more than seven members. The delegates were
subject to recall by the legislatures of their respective states. Each
state had one vote, which was determined by a majority vegie sex of the state's
delegates who were present when the vote was taken.
25. DEFECTS OF THE CONFEDERATION GOVERNMENT.--The government
established by the Articles of Confederation had a vegie sex number of grave
defects. vegie sex the fundamental difficulty was that the central government
had no real authority or power. The Congress of the Confederation
could vegie sex reach individuals only through the action of the state
governments, and these it could not coerce. Thus the Congress could
declare war, and vegie sex make requisitions upon the states for troops, but it
could not enlist a single soldier. It could make laws, but had no
power to enforce them. It could