Original sentence: A second strength/weakness was one-state, one-vote.Compared to the successor US Constitution, the Articles provided stronger protection of individual liberty.In particular, holders of war script and western land speculators wanted a central government to pay off script at face value and to legalize land holdings with disputed claims.Most of the participants in the illegal Constitutional Convention were script and/or land speculators.One major strength/weakness was it lacked taxing authority for the central government; the federal government had to request funds from the states.The Articles created a weak national government designed to manage the American Revolutionary War.The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States" confederation.The larger states were expected to contribute more but had only one vote, though they could remedy this theoretically by dividing into smaller states.Thus, from the libertarian point of view, they were better than the Constitution, but from the statist point of view they were weaker.When the war ended in 1783, special interests conspired to create a "merchant state," much like the British state people had rebelled against
Edited sentence: " The Articles created a weak national government designed to manage the American Revolutionary War.A second weakness was one-state, one-vote.As Benjamin Franklin complained, "Let the smaller Colonies give equal money and men, and then have an equal vote.But if they have an equal vote without bearing equal burdens, a confederation upon such iniquitous principles will never last long.One major weakness was it lacked taxing authority; it had to request funds from the states.The Articles set the rules for operations of the United States.The larger states were expected to contribute more but had only one vote.When the war ended in 1783, its many inadequacies became glaringly obvious, and national leaders such as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton called for a new charter