1. No chief executive made a lack of federal order 2. No national court system meant that problems among states couldn't be fixed 3. <span>any amendments to the Articles must be approved by all 13 states which made it nearly impossible to make any changes</span>
The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.