The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, ...

While George Washington may have been “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” he was not the United States’ initial president. Before the Mount Vernon resident became ...

The Continental Congress meets to debate and adopt the Articles of Confederation. The Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia to debate the Articles of Confederation: the document that will ...

The Articles were weak by design and left Congress unable to pay soldiers in the Continental Army. It took the Continental Congress 526 days to fashion the Articles of Confederation and another 39 ...