What weakness of the U. S. Government, under the Articles of Confederation is being described? The national government was not as powerful as the state of Rhode Island. The national government did not have the power to regulate commerce. The national government was not able to regulate each state's currency. The national government did not have the power to write amendments.

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Unfortunately, you did not include the text or the description to know what specifically you are talking about.

So that being the case, we can only comment on the following. All of the above-mentioned statements are true.

The Articles of Confederation gave the states too much power. Indeed, the states remained sovereign under the Articles and they were the ones who could collect money through taxes, The central government remained weak, And when Congress needed money, it had to ask for it from the states. Congress couldn't regulate trade between the states or foreign trade. That is why the delegates from the colonies met at the Constitutional Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1787, to change the articles and create the new Constitution of the United States.

answer; if congress didn't act on certain requests;

no because it could make the world a terrible place to live in.