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We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
By Van Cleve, George William
- ISBN
- 9780226480503
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2017 | Social Sciences
Van Cleve (law, history, Seattle Univ. School of Law; A Slaveholder's Union) ably demonstrates that U.S. political and financial difficulties culminated by 1787, after the Revolutionary War's end, in unsustainable and irreparable conditions that caused Americans to fear that the weakened Confederation, nearing collapse, would be subject to anarchy and foreign domination. The author describes in great detail the varied and complicated issues faced by the impotent, insolvent Congress: lac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
