Which is a true statement about the weakness of the administrative area of government under the articles of confederation

Due to the Articles of Confederation putting almost all of the power in the hands of the state governments, the federal government couldn't tax the people. Therefore, the government had no money to pay back the wages owed to the soldiers that served during the Revolutionary War. This problem then caused multiple uprisings, foremost of them was Shay's Rebellion. 

A. standing commitee

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.