The Congress shall have Power To...establish Post Offices and post Roads.... Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress possessed the power to establish and regulate post offices. The Framers ...

which declared that the Confederation Congress was liable for “monies borrowed and debts contracted by” the old Continental Congress. Nor was this the only support. Writers on the law of ...

Congress struggled to hold the states together, and interests often clashed. The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation quickly became apparent. Congress could ask the states to provide ...