C. Because there was no branch to enforce these laws
When we were under the AOC, they wrote it so that the state governments had all the power, while the Federal government had very little. Since they were afraid of a tyrannical figure ruling over them, they made it so that there was no executive branch. Only a legislative branch. Because of this, they could make all the laws they wanted but no one could make the states follow them.
The answer is European nationalism
