POL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Articles Of Confederation

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 307
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

The u. s. government (national government) was not sovereign. Its boss was the 13 state governments: government, government: makes, carries out, and interprets the laws that constitute the territory in which it governs, each state had its own government, which paid their state"s congress members. The state governments gave their legislators directions on how to vote on certain issues. The articles of confederation did not give congress the power to make many laws. To propose an amendment to the articles of confederation, you needed a. State governments also tried to print their own money/make their own forms of currency: nothing was done about these violations because each state was considered sovereign. Foreign nations that wanted to negotiate trade agreements with the u. s. National government had to debate the terms with the whole group (i. e. all of the states: the national government was not allowed to tax the people. It received its revenue through a requisition, which occurred once a year.