What was the biggest contrast between the articles of confederacy and britain’s unitary governmental system? a. all powers lie within the national government in the unitary system but this is not true of the government established by the articles of confederacy. b. the articles of confederacy give all the powers to the states and the national government has none. c. the national government in both the system established by the articles of confederacy and the unitary system have the same amount of power. d. the articles of confederacy give all of the power to the national government while the unitary system distributes power between levels of government.