Noah Webster's quote reflects his concern that the Articles of Confederation allowed individual states to act in their own self-interest, which could undermine the effectiveness and unity of the nation as a whole. Therefore, the fundamental problem he saw in the Articles of Confederation was that states would always work in their own self-interest, even if it meant harm to the nation as a whole.
So long as any individual
state has power to defeat the
measures of the other twelve,
our pretended union is but a
name, and our confederation,
a cobweb.
—Noah Webster
What fundamental
problem did Noah
Webster see in the
Articles of
Confederation?
that states
would always
work in their
own self-interest
even if it meant
harm to the
nation as a
whole
that the central
government
would always
favor large
states over the
smaller states
when disputes
broke out
that small states would have just as much say in the government as larger states
that small states would have just as much say in the government as larger states - no response given
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