Can state governments print their own money?

Question

under the Articles of Confederation?

Please answer! thanx

Answer 1

Yes -- to play Monopoly with.

Answer 2

It was intended for the US federal government to be weak and only have the power to make sure the states dont go to war with each other and to protect the nation from the rest of th world.  The real power was to be in the state governments, but that was taken away with the civil war.  The federal government decided that the American people couldnt be trusted to govern themselves.

Answer 3

Yes  

Answer 4

Under the Articles of Confederation they did print their own currencies. It was a cluster f****. Each state had it's own currency, tax rates, tarriffs, etc. It wasn't working. That's why the Constitutional Convention was called in the late 1780's. The current government was set up back then. Interestingly, it wasn't set up to be "one nation, indivisible." The United States was set up to be more like what the European Union is today. If you asked the average American back in the 1700's or 1800's what country he or she was from, the answer wouldn't have been "American." It would have been "Virginia" or "Massachussetts" or "Ohio," or whatever state that person was from. It wasn't until after the Civil war that that mindset was phased out by the educational system. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in the 1890's. Most of the founding fathers would have been horrified at the Pledge.

Answer 5

Yep, hence the constitutional convention a few years later.