Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could request that men be sent to form the country’s militia, but it could not force the states to comply. Why not?
because of the principle of a representative gov
because of the political ideology of federalism
because there was no branch to enforce the laws
because the was no branch to say whether the laws were fair

C. Because there was no branch to enforce these laws

When we were under the AOC, they wrote it so that the state governments had all the power, while the Federal government had very little. Since they were afraid of a tyrannical figure ruling over them, they made it so that there was no executive branch. Only a legislative branch. Because of this, they could make all the laws they wanted but no one could make the states follow them.