Use the excerpt below to answer the question that follows: 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? (1 point) Responses 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 that the states would have no way to stop the central government from imposing harsh taxes on them that the states would have no way to stop the central government from imposing harsh taxes on them that states would always work in their own self-interest even if it meant harm to the nation as a whole 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

Answer 1

Noah Webster saw the fundamental problem in the Articles of Confederation as the inability of individual states to cooperate effectively, leading to a lack of unity and meaning in the confederation. Specifically, he believed that "any individual state has power to defeat the measures of the other twelve," which suggests that states would always work in their own self-interest even if it meant harm to the nation as a whole.