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 ...

The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation quickly became apparent ... The Constitution counted each enslaved African American as 3/5 of a person for purposes of representation and taxation ...

The 1920s saw renewed individualism as bankers and financial entrepreneurs speculated wildly with consumer deposits and ...

The Continental Congress had only tasked the delegates with “the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of ...

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 ...

The answer is “the U.S. Constitution,” which replaced the Articles of Confederation that governed the new nation during and shortly after the American Revolution – although not very ...