# kaal:claim:3782193-035

**Claim.** The Articles of Confederation were consciously written to limit the authority of a weak central government with no chief executive, and this made the American war effort difficult because the organization was very inefficient at marshalling resources.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- the Thirteen Colonies during the seven years of rebellion

**Source quote.**

> These Articles were consciously authored to limit the authority of its weak central government which had no chief executive. This made the war effort difficult because it meant the organization was very inefficient at marshalling resources.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), The U.S. Constitution’s dynamic hybrid solution, page 29

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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**Failure mode.** Decentralized inefficiency under threat  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** decentralization, institutional-design

**Keywords.** articles-of-confederation, decentralization, american-revolution, executive-power, resource-mobilization

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