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- Title We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
- Author George William Van Cleve
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780226641522 / 022664152X
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Dewey Decimal Code 342.730
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New. In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of Confederation. Just four years later, that same government collapsed, and Congress grudgingly agreed to support the 1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, which altered the Articles beyond recognition. What occurred during this remarkably brief interval to cause the Confederation to lose public confidence and inspire Americans to replace it with a dramatically more flexible and powerful government? We Have Not a Government is the story of this contentious moment in American history. In George William Van Cleve's book, we encounter a sharply divided America. The Confederation faced massive war debts with virtually no authority to compel its members to pay them. It experienced punishing trade restrictions and strong resistance to American territorial expansion from powerful European governments.…
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