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

An appreciation of the Preamble begins with a comparison of it to its counterpart in the compact the Constitution replaced, the Articles of Confederation. There, the states joined in “a firm ...

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 ...

After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of Confederation, the existing constitution. Instead, the delegates proposed an entirely different system of ...

Borrowed from our first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the foreign-emoluments clause has two purposes. First is the preservation of republican simplicity. Titles of nobility ...

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. This laconic sentence, in the last and ...

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Articles of ...

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

The film discusses the historical context and significance of the United States Constitution, created in the aftermath of Shay's Rebellion and the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.