Please help!! 50 points: "It will be said there is no money in the treasury. There never will be money in the treasury till the
confederacy shows its teeth. The states must see the rod, perhaps it must be felt by some one of
them. I am persuaded all of them would rejoice to see every one obliged to furnish its contributions.
It is not the difficulty of furnishing them which beggars [impoverishes] the treasury, but the fear that
others will not furnish as much."

Thomas Jefferson (Paris) to James Monroe 11th August 1786

What is Jefferson suggesting in the above passage?

a. That the Articles government be given the power to regulate interstate commerce.

b. that the Articles government be give the power to tax.

c. That the Articles government be given the power to raise an army.

b. That the Articles government be given the power to force the states to fund the central government.