According to the quote below and your knowledge from your reading, which of these was a weakness in the Articles of Confederation exposed by Shay’s Rebellion? "[T]hey see the weakness of Government[,] they feel at once their own poverty compared with the opulent, and their own force, and they are determined to make use of [force]...Our government must be braced, changed, or altered to secure our lives and property.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the virtue of the people were so [similar] that we were not as other nations requiring brutal force to support the laws—But we find that... we must have a government proper and adequate for [the people].” --Henry Knox, letter to George Washington, 1786

A. The imbalance of power between the three branches of government.
B. The dominance of an overly powerful executive branch
C. The national government having too much power than the states.
D. The problem of states having more power than the federal government