Full Question:
”When the Articles of Confederation were drafted, Americans had had little experience of what a national government could do for them and bitter experience of what an arbitrary government could do to them. In creating a central government they were therefore more concerned with keeping it under control than with giving it the means to do its job”.
-Source: Edmund S. Morgan, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, 1956
Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to support the argument in the excerpt?
The national government could not pass laws over territories.
The national government could not negotiate treaties with foreign governments.
The national government could not wage war.
The national government could not levy taxes on the people.
Answer:
The national government could not levy taxes on the people.
Explanation:
During its earliest formation, United States' government has a lot of weakness. The founding fathers lacked experience in government made a lot of holes in the articles of confederation which proved fatal later on.
The confederation stated that the right to levy states fell to the hand of the states government. Without specifying that the federal government had the power to make an intervention and levy taxes on the states behalf.
As a result, it became extremely difficult for the federal government to collect enough fund from the states that're necessary to pay for the national policies. In the end, they fixed this by making amendments to the constitutoon.
