ARTICLES of CONFEDERATION....?

Question

Explain and give examples of powers that each type of government had or did not have under the articles of confederation government.

Answer 1

I must admit that I don’t understand the intent of your question in that, taken literally, it is fully answered by simply reading the Articles of Confederation. That said. . . . .

This was an agreement among the States and those the States entered into a league of friendship for common defense, security of liberties and mutual and general welfare and bound together against any sort of attack.

The created general government shall act as the entity for all foreign contacts and relationships and foreign wars and courts for acts on the high seas. These United States in Congress Assembled shall have sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war.

As you will notice in reading the Articles of Confederation that decisions are made by the delegates in Congress Assembled which is the entity of the general government but in reality are the States coming together to make decisions to be implemented through the general government. An exception to this is when Congress is ‘not’ assembled and then the Committee of the States (or any nine of them) shall be authorized to execute the powers of Congress..

Answer 2

http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html





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