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EPISODE · Mar 10, 2025 · 41 MIN

Episode 4: What's So Bad about the Articles of Confederation?

from The American Founding with Jay Cost · host IFF

This episode will look at "America's Mulligan," the Articles of Confederation. The first system of government in the United States, the Articles lasted from 1777 until 1789. They are largely remembered as a failure. Yet in creating this system of government, the Americans were drawing upon the lessons of history and theory. 

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