is it true the articles provided congress with the power it needed to run the government

Question

The Articles of Confederation

Answer 1

If it did, we would have kept the Articles instead of switching to the Constitution. No, it had no way to enforce taxation, maintain armed forces, unify money (each state had its own currency), and the states held so much autonomous power that the central government could only "make suggestions of what to do" at best.

"George Washington called it a many headed monster that never will nor can steer to the same point." -- Extra History