WRITING PROMPT: Read the Articles of Confederation(1777) and the United States Constitution (1787), available through the course website. Compare Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution with Article VIII

of the Articles of Confederation, and consider:what are the means of taxation specified in each document?Who collects the taxes and how are those taxes assessed, and for what purposes? Why do you think this provision of the Articles was changed in the Constitution?