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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 important to ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. The American Revolution served as a test to see ...

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 ...

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 and ...

Pt. 1: the American confederation in war and peace, 1781-1783 -- Pt. 2: a nearly impotent Congress, 1784-1787 -- Pt. 3: the tree of liberty: its fruits and its flavor, 1783-1787 -- Pt. 4: the ...

Irish-born Thomas Burke died before his 40th birthday, but the North Carolinian lived long enough to wield sharp tools in constructing America’s foundation. In the spring of 1777, Burke was laboring ...