"We may indeed be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation. Do we owe debts to foreigners, and to our own citizens, contracted in a time of peril? These remain without any proper provision for their repayment. Have we valuable territories in the possession of a foreign power, which ought long since to have been surrendered? Are we in a condi- tion to repel aggression? We have neither troops, nor treasury, nor govern- ment." - A criticism of the Articles of Confederation made by Alexander Hamilton in 1787Hamilton said that "We have neither troops, nor treasury, nor government" in part because the Articles of Confederation did not give the
