Answer: Speaker 3: A centralized government is a threat to people's freedom.
The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the thirteen original states of America, which served as its first Constitution. It was approved in 1777 and came into force in 1781.
A guiding principle of the Articles was to preserve the independence and sovereignty of the states, and because of that, it created an extremely weak central government. The Articles reflected the fear that a strong centralized government would be a threat to people's freedom.
