| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Canada and the United States

Keith L. Dougherty. Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 211. $49.95.

For as long as scholars have studied the American Revolution, they have been critical of the Articles of Confederation for their failure to give Congress the power to levy or collect taxes; it could only ask the states to contribute their appropriate share of federal expenses. Contemporaries and later scholars all agreed that without a coercive power, Congress's requisition system amounted to little. Even those like Merrill Jensen, who emphasized the strengths of the Articles, felt that the Confederation Congress needed the powers to tax and to regulate commerce. . . .

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