This led to confusion relating to exchange rates and trade, the states all had difficulty trading or buying off each other because of their difference in pay. Some states accepted the money that other states had offered to them, while other states refused to honor bills issued by their neighboring states. The absence of a national government was strongly felt during situations of territory disputes. When life after war began to settle, Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire all fought over who had the right to claim the land of Vermont. No one was able to mediate this disagreement.
THESIS : Because of its lack of stability , good decision making , and inflexibility of an amendment regarding the states during the years 1781-1789 , the Articles of Confederation , did a poor job in insuring the security of the United States' economy The Articles of Confederation did a poor job in insuring the security of the United States economy. In a letter from the Rhode Island assembly to the members of Congress , they expressed their disagreement regarding the recommendation for taxes on imported goods , which could ulitimatley damage their economy, With the Articles , Congress had no power to regulate commerce , which left states free to establish conflictiong laws regarding tariffs and navigation. Another crippling handicap to Congress was the fact that they also could not enforce its tax-collection program. Despite their attempts for asking the states to contribute theri share , Congress failed to ever meet its quota. During the time period of the Articles of Confederation , Congress lacked much power and was never capable of contributing the money to get the United States out of their war debt.
Under the Articles of Confederation its powers included conducting foreign relations, settling disputes between states, controlling market values, regulating trade and so on. It purposely did not give the national government all the power in fear of tyranny like in Britain. Economically and Socially, although the United States desired an effective government, they comprised an ineffective government because there was no president, the U.S. wasn’t able to pass taxes and laws, it had no army to protest the nation, it had a weak government, and it had no courts to settle problems between states. So in the end, the Articles of Confederation proved to be both inadequate in economic conditions, foreign relations and other aspects. Thus, these political, economic and social factors all contributed to the reasons why the Articles of Confederation couldn’t provide an effective form of government.
This controversy resulted in massive disputes over boundaries between states, and these arguments were not easily resolved at all, due to the lack of a judicial or an executive branch in the Articles of Confederation. Without a central judicial court to work out national quarrels and determine the boundaries of a state, the central government that consisted solely on Congress, could only plead that states make compromises about their western claims. Unsurprisingly, the suggestions of Congress did little to persuade the states to give up their important lands. John Jay summed up the inefficiency of this system of begging provided by the Articles of Confederation in a letter to George Washington in1786 where he
A balance of trade deficit began to occur. The cost of government, including the military and welfare, became burdensome.Class economic warfare broke out between the rich and poor.Parts of the empire were not taxed whileothers were overtaxed. The small farm all but disappeared. D. Political Causes.The Romans never really solved the problem of succession. The government was not designed to rule a large,polyglot empire and reform came too late.
During Cromwell's time the kings chamber was significantly weakened. Whilst Elton argues that this was due to a 'revolution' within government leading to a more bureaucratic government where power was no longer held between few people but more evenly spread out. The reality of this was that Cromwell had no master plan for reform. It was in an effort to protect his position that Cromwell weakened the position of the kings chamber due to the fact that it was one thing he could not control. This meant that the weakening of the kings chamber was practical politics rather than a preconceived plan for reform.
Gridlock occurs when the branches of government scrutinise each other’s action to such a point where neither can pass any form of legislation, and the government therefore becomes less able to perform its duties, therefore leading to a less effective government. For example during Obamas presidency he had struggled with the majority of republican opposition in congress, and therefore had trouble to pass any major legislation such as immigration reform, jobs bill, gun control initiatives and etc. On the other hand, others may argue that the government is not ineffective because of the constitution as the checks and balances system do in fact work, as a way to prevent an overly centralised and powerful form of government, which may not stay accountable to the people as much as it does to large corporations who fund them for re-elections and etc.
DEA overlapped with the Treasury and the role of Chancellor, Callaghan and Wilson didn’t know who to listen to, this resulted in Brown/DEA in competition with Chancellor Callaghan and the treasury. This problem worsened as Brown was impulsive and lacked consistency (drink problem). Brown came up with National Plan, this created in unison with trade unions and industry but did not have support of united government. Potential third problem was that Wilson was trying to keep everyone happy rather than pick best team for the job and this resulted in the DEA being ineffective and not helping the economy at
The constitution created a more stabilzed federal government and giving rights and power to the central government. Congress had some weaknessess in the Articles of confederation that consisted of having no power to coin money, therefore each stay had to develop its own currency. Another weakness was that congress was unable to negotiate their interstate and foreign commerce. Some of the steates had refused topay for the goods that they had purchased from abroad. More weaknessed were that congress was unable to impose taxes.
The problem with this was that the allies had slow growing post war economies, this meant that they had little money to repay their war debts with and many of the nations disagreed that they should have to repay the loan at all, as the war had been in everybody’s interest and the money they had spent had helped the united states to prosper. The two ways that the allies could repay the US were with Gold reserves or with increased exports to America. Neither of these were appropriate, the allies needed gold reserves to support their faltering currencies and they were unable to build up a trade surplus with the states because of their extensive protectionism measures including the … tariff. The main problem, that countries, such as the UK, had, stemmed from re-joining the gold standard. This was a way of doing international trade and was an early exchange rate system, it used gold as a bases to convert currency and later included strong currencies such as the pound and the dollar.