After the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the founders adopted a form of government, strong enough to maintain order but not to dominate the states.

Explanation:

A system of governance in which power is divided between the central national and local state governments is called federal government. In it some areas are under the national government and others are controlled by local governments. It is suited to the large countries where a diverse group of people with diverse needs exist and need a common culture to bind them together.

One of the major drawback of the in the Article of Confederation was that the national government had no power to collect taxes, it only allowed the state government to levy taxes, the national government was dependent on the state government to pay for its expenses.  Shay's rebellion revealed the weakness of both the articles of confederation and federal government as it had no power to enforce the laws.

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