Answer:
1) The Article did not provide the Congress and the national government with sufficient authority to implement their laws and
2) it did not allow the national government to implement taxes.
Explanation:
A weak national government created under the Article of Confederation to fight against the revolution. The Article did not provide the Congress and the national government with sufficient authority to implement their laws and that it did not allow the national government to implement taxes. Therefore, many people thought that they require a powerful central government. Hence, a special conference of delegates was called to draft the initial Constitution for the United States of America. Therefore the convention replaced national government under the Articles of Confederation by the establishment of Federal government.
This depends somewhat on what you classify as "west," but generally speaking, yes, this is true, since it was in Ancient Athens that the first democracy was formed.
