An original printing of the Articles of Confederation at Williams College in Massachusetts in 2007. (AP Photo / Nathaniel Brooks) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...

Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Between ... Confederation’s Congress for a one-year term — they became the original presidents of the independent nation known as the United ...

Everyone learns, by the end of high school, that the United States had a constitution before the Constitution — the Articles of Confederation. Last week, I wrote about why I think it is ...

James Madison University history professor Chris Arndt discussed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and the federal government's ability to collect taxes. Javascript must be enabled ...

A new installment of “Lessons Learned” is now out. This week I discuss the Articles of Confederation, America’s first constitution. It entered into effect on March 1, 1781, after Maryland ...

The Brennan Center for Justice and the National Constitution Center present a symposium exploring how the Articles of Confederation shaped the U.S. Constitution. Historians, legal scholars, and ...

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 ...

A mural by David Naydock on a building in York, Pa., depicts members of the Continental Congress debating the Articles of Confederation. But the city is perhaps most proud of its claim as the ...

Peter Hanson Michael talked about John Hanson, who served as President of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and argued that Joh… read more Peter Hanson Michael talked about John ...

Many had roles in developing multi-media projects entered in the York County Heritage Trust and York Daily Record/Sunday News Articles of Confederation Day Media Contest. Here, Rose Beyer ...

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 ...