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In order to protect states' rights, the Articles set strict limits on congressional authority. Under the Articles, the states, not Congress had the power to tax. Congress could raise money only by asking the states for funds, borrowing from foreign governments, and selling western lands.
The term "representative government" refers to a system in which larger groups are represented in government bodies by one person or a small group of people. The term is commonly used to describe a representative democracy or an indirect democracy.
On January 1st, 1993, the fracture of Czechoslovakia occurred in the two federal entities the comprised: Czech republic and the Slovak republic. The so-called velvet divorce was considered an exemplary act of peaceful and orderly division against the chaos and violence that were characterizing the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the USSR.
