Articles Of Confederation Weaknesses

In the Articles of Confederation the writers made it to where the state governments had great power and the federal government was weak. After some years people began to see the weaknesses and decided to make a change. One of the weak points in United States' first constitution was commerce regulation. There was no provision to control interstate or foreign trades. Congress could only regulate trade and business with Native Americans, and sometimes they could not even do that.

Another fail was allowing all states to have a different type of currency. Congress could print money, but states could as well. This made interstate and foreign trades difficult and way less efficient.

The third weakness of the Articles of Confederation was the congress did not have the power to control taxes. Only states could control taxes which made it to where the states had to supply congress with money. On occasion, states refused to pay congress which put America in debt with foreign countries and also built walls for other advancements in the U.S.
The fourth weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that the national government did not have a judiciary branch.
The states were the judiciary branch, so states could ignore national government, but if a citizen had a grievance with the national government there was no system to place a
lawsuit.

The fifth weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that there was no head of foreign affairs. There was not a president at the time which made other countries confused and they were never sure who to contact to initiate diplomacy.