The point of the Constitution was to replace the failure of the Articles of Confederation, but it simply created a new ring for battle, one that has been the center of conflict in America ever since.

Racked by overlapping social, political and economic crises, paralyzed by stalemate and unable to reform itself, the United States under the articles was a failure. And yet, the Confederation ...

Why did the Articles of Confederation fail, and how did the U.S. Constitution come to be? This episode of "History In A Nutshell" answers those questions! History in a Nutshell is available to ...

Christ Arndt talked about the constitutional conventions of the late 1700s, including the failures of the Articles of Confederation and the… read more Christ Arndt talked about the ...

Professor Ryan Smith talked about his book, Robert Morris’s Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an ... of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.

No one knows if Benjamin Franklin actually urged his fellow patriots to hang together lest they would hang separately in British gallows. That comment came at the time of the American Revolution ...

America under the Articles of Confederation was a mess, not unlike Europe today. Could it lead to a stronger European Union? German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...

“At the time they were adopted, the Articles created the strongest confederation in history,” according to Rowland Young in the American Bar Association Journal. While it has been frequently ...