The Articles of Confederation Explained: A Clause-by-Clause Study of America's First Constitution

Did you know that the United States of America began life as a confederacy, and that it was, in fact, officially called "the Confederacy" between 1781 and 1789? Did you know that for those eight years the U.S. technically operated as, and was also nicknamed, "The Confederate States of America," and that because of this our first constitution was named "The Articles of Confederation"?

Did you know that the conservative South fought the liberal North, not to "preserve slavery," as is falsely t...