With America’s Constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and ...

Today, the Articles are ignored as a false start. That’s a mistake. The Constitution was an explicit attempt to form a union ...

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To finance the War of Independence, the American states and the Continental ... for such an action in Article XII of the Articles of Confederation, which declared that the Confederation Congress ...

The movement to adopt a Constitution grew out of substantial dissatisfaction with the operation of the Articles of Confederation, including the Confederation’s difficulty in settling disputes ...

In May 1787, the democratic government that had emerged from the American Revolution was only eight years old. But already, it threatened to crumble. Although the Articles of Confederation had ...