Show confederation confederate erat ion articles and U S constitution the articles of confederation conferred upon congress none but the delegated powers anil and recognized the absolute sovereignty ot of the states notes a writer in ID the cleveland plain dealer aside from the right to make war and pence peace regulate foreign intercourse receive and send ambassadors control and coinage of money and settle disputed boundaries congress had no DO power to act without the consent of nine of the states each casting one ona ballot it could not levy taxes and before 1787 the war debt had destroyed the financial reputation of the united states abroad the states were divided in their interests te rests and at the last colonial congress but eight of the states sent delegates not the least of the weaknesses of the confederation was the of a chief magistrate or for a national judiciary to meet these needs it was found necessary to frame a new constitution systematically organizing a permanent form of government this document arranges the pow powers ers of government under three heads beads legislative executive and judicial and places the supreme power in the people of the whole country instead of vainly endeavor lus to maintain a multitude of independent states it replaced a disjointed confederacy of ot jealous states with a nation |