Which was not a weakness of the Articles of Confederation? A. It could not require states to contribute money to the national go
vernment. B. It did not include executive and judicial branches. C. It allowed each state to create its own foreign policy. D. It could not enforce its decisions.
The first major domestic crisis of the US government under the Constitution resulted from the federal government exercising its new right to tax the states in order to bring in more revenue to pay down the war debt.