We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution

by George William Van Cleve

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022664152X
• ISBN13: 9780226641522
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"