The main problem of the Articles of Confederation was that they did not give the federal government the power to tax. Keep in mind that the American Revolution was fought against a central authority who taxed the Americans without their consent--the Americans were loath to create the same thing for themselves.
We fought and we died. My ancestors were brave and because of that, we now have reservatoins at the least, whereupon the Native Amercian Lifestyle is Respected.
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.
