Reasons people started oppose in the constitution

The Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were:

  1 Each state only had one vote in Congress, regardless of size

 2  Congress didn't have the power to tax, or to regulate foreign and interstate commerce

  3 There was no executive branch to enforce any acts passed by Congress

  4 There was no national court system

 5  Amendments to the Articles of Confederation required a unanimous vote

 6  Laws required a 9/13 majority to pass in Congress

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire