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This essay examines the balancing of states' rights and national power in The Articles of Confederation.

This essay examines the balancing of states' rights and national power in The Articles of Confederation.

Devised during the Revolutionary War, the weak central government of the Articles of Confederation was unable to cope with the pressing problems of a new nation.

What were the political causes of the American Civil War? What differences led to the War Between the States? And what lessons can we take from the war?

America's early policy of viewing Native American tribes as a threat lead to a grave injustice and its longest war.

James Madison, after graduating from Princeton, serves as a delegate to the patriotic convention and becomes close friends with Thomas Jefferson.

A revolutionary plan that would become the blueprint of the new national government

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton stressed that an additional convention of states must be called to revise the Articles of Confederation.

George Washington faced many problems as the first executive in the constitutional era. Survival of the nation was the biggest. Europe expected America to fail.

From March, 1781 to March, 1789 the United States operated under the Articles of Confederation. Amending the Articles required unanimous consent.

In the summer of 1787, the framers of the Constitution of the United States took the radical step of transferring national sovereignty from a government to the people.

Did the U. S. Constitution claim that Africans were only three/fifths human? No, the three/fifths compromise decided representation, not the humanity of individuals.

When the framers of the U. S Constitution were drawing up that document, they faced many obstacles that required much debate and ultimate compromise.

The events that led up to the ratification of the United States Constitution were challenging for the founders. Prior to the writing of the Constitution colonial America

Among the difficulties proponents had when seeking constitutional ratification was the lack of an express limit on federal power. The Tenth Amendment was to remedy this.

Throughout American political history, conservatives and liberals have been battling for control of the government.

Although the former colonies were now fully independent, the new nation was plagued with problems in governance, commerce, and internal social concerns.

Both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution came out of an English tradition of limited representative government mirrored in colonial governments.

Find out why President Taft needed a special bathtub, what records might be broken by Obama or McCain, and which president was not a U. S. citizen when he died

The Revolutionary War brought the desired freedom the young states wanted, but it also brought great debt. Alexander Hamilton's idea on how to pay the debt caused mayhem.

Mansfield Lovell was a West Point educated engineer whose career as a Confederate general was tarnished by losing the port city of New Orleans to Admiral David Farragut.

James Madison sees the new Constitution ratified and makes a lifelong enemy of Patrick Henry. Henry predicts there well be rivulets of blood.

Mary Pickersgill, during the War of 1812, is commissioned to make an American flag to fly above Fort McHenry

Renewed conflict with France prompts Albany Congress. Six Nations of the Iroquois attend. Ben Franklin, Thomas Hutchinson propose Central Government to organize defense.

The Albany Plan represented an efficient approach to a more centralized government able to address general colonial issues but still under Parliamentary control.

A meeting between Maryland and Virginia in 1785 showed that the states could cooperate to mutual benefit of both and led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

Who was the first president of the United States? Wrong. It wasn't George Washington, but it was a friend of his.

As each generation learns American History, new facts and long ignored items are rediscovered. A few of these interesting tidbits are as follows:

The Northwest Ordinance was an effort to curtail white settlement on Indian lands and establish a set of rules for future expansion.

Mark Levin issues a manifesto for conservative apologists to challenge modern liberalism.

Philadelphia was at the center of the fight for American Independence. Visitors to the city can see important landmarks that transformed US history.

George Washington is remembered for leading the United States to victory in the American Revolution and as the first President of the United States.

Taxes have been imposed on Americans since 1765 and evolved throughout the centuries, some related to historical events and others were more added more gradually.

Abraham Lincoln led the nation through the Civil War, but what about the causes of the Civil War? Why did President Lincoln stop the South from seceding?

Washington chose Alexander Hamilton for Treasury Secretary because Hamilton knew public financing. The program he proposed would work-but could he get it passed?

Attempts to link documents in the Western tradition with the expansion of popular political participation may be disingenuous and mythical.

The media has said that the partisan bickering in the United States has reached new levels of vitriol, but the war has been raging since the nation was founded.

Common Sense argued the absurdity of monarchy and the natural response of separation from Britain as well as outlining a representative form of government.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were so at odds during George Washington's presidency that he had to act as a go-between. Jefferson would eventually resign.

Samuel Adams was able to gain the support of many through his influential political writings.

Why do people need to be governed? How successful are various forms of government, and why did the framers of the U.S. Constitution form a representative republic?