<span>They did not want a central authority like the British system. This best describes why the Americans created a loose Confederation of the States in the Articles of Confederation. </span>
<span>The answer is to employ people to construct public buildings and infrastructure </span>
If you belonged to a guild and lived in a cathedral town, it was a solid life. You were patronized and subsidized by a church, the guild provided help and aid. Things were nice. <span>The artisan in the medieval era had it easier than they would in the early modern era, where the nascent middle-classes crushed, bought church property and broke up the power of guilds.</span>