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the continental Congress was the first government of the united states' and the articles of confederation we're the first constitution. the united States did not have money to pay it's debt but it did have states to ask for funding it could print or borrow. the land ordinance was the act that spelled out how land west of the Mississippi was to be bought and sold. some of weakness of the articles? 1. it could not tax. 2. it had no power to regulate foreign trade. 3. it had no executive branch 4. it had no court system
