The articles gave very little power to the central government and more to the states. Therefore, when the government leaders were trying fix the articles, they really had no power to. That is why, when the leaders had the Constitutional Convention, instead of changing the articles, they had to completely throw out the articles and start over.
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State and Federal governments deal with bigger issues that is affecting a great amount of the population found within the economy and/or state, while local deals with problems within its community
Major Rafael Chacon, 1st New Mexico Cavalry.
Colonel Francisco Abreu, 1st New Mexico Cavalry.
Santiago Martin, 1st New Mexico Cavalry.
https://www.nps.gov/foun/learn/historyculture/new-mexico-volunteers.htm
Answer : He had been a representative in the house of burgesses prior to the American Revolution. He wrote the Declaration of Independence. During the war he served as a state representative and governor of Virginia. He was an ambassador to France.