Describe the government under, and powers given by, the articles of confederation.

The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union were the first constitutional basis of the United States and precursors of the United States Constitution of 1787. Their rules were based essentially on the principle of national sovereignty. After the Continental Congress passed them on November 15, 1777, they were in force after their three-year ratification from 1781 to 1789.

The international legal regulations of the Articles of Confederation rested on the principle of the complete sovereignty of the individual states. Thus, they effectively established an American confederation, which, however, had some structural deficiencies and quickly failed.

From the beginning of the Confederation, its legislature, the Continental Congress, was not allowed to raise its own taxes. Contributions from member states should contribute to the functioning of the Confederation organs, but most member states did not comply with this convention. For this reason, the Confederation was unable to provide its members with military protection against the increasing intervention of the European powers.

In addition, most Member States did not feel obliged to accept arrangements made in the Confederation. Since the latter lacked both enforcement and sanction possibilities, the scope of action of the Confederation was always limited. An important political and economic obstacle and expression of fragmentation, for example, was the increasing demarcation of the member states by protective tariffs, which the Continental Congress was also powerless for, for example, they had the opportunity to withdraw from the Confederation.

To cope with these abuses, the Philadelphia Convention was convened. Actually, it was initially only to discuss the possibility of improvements in the state organization and to find a wording of the articles to reassure the individual states that feared for their power. In the end, however, it presented a completely new draft Constitution, which, in contrast to the Articles of Confederation, demanded a strong federal government as an executive body. This was to take over the powers of the individual states, above all in questions of foreign policy, foreign trade and national defense.

In retrospect, the Articles of Confederation have, historically, nevertheless established the everlasting Union of North American States.

the options of this question are:

a) president wilson’s desire to form the league of nations  

b) germany’s desire for reasonable conditions of surrender and fair treatment.  

c)europe’s desire to maintain original pre-war borders  

d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions

the correct answer is d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions.

the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions had the greatest influence on how germany was treated after world war i.

it is estimated that the cost of wwi was around 260 billion dollars, and the allies wanted germany to pay a big part for the losses. the allies also wanted to impose land losses as well as limit the army of germany and confiscate their industrial resources to apply the retribution.

in the united states, president woodrow wilson created the fourteen points to be delivered to germany, as a peace program. he presented these documents to the u.s. congress in january 1918.