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100 1  Van Cleve, George,|d1952-|eauthor. 
245 10 We have not a government :|bthe Articles of Confederation 
       and the road to the Constitution /|cGeorge William van 
       Cleve. 
264  1 Chicago :|bThe University of Chicago Press,|c2017. 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    xix, 390 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  The confederation's final years: a chronology -- 
       Introduction -- The search for national identity -- War's 
       aftermath -- America's postwar debts: public faith or 
       anarchy? -- Republic and empire: the struggle over 
       confederation taxes -- Protecting American commerce in an 
       imperial world -- Western expansion strains -- 
       "Astonishing" emigrations and western settlement conflicts
       -- The Spanish-treaty impasse and the union's collapse -- 
       Internal divisions : state social conflicts -- Economic 
       relief, social peace, and republican justice -- Shays's 
       rebellion: the final battle of the American revolution? --
       Confederation collapse and its consequences -- "The truth 
       is, we have not a government" : confederation stalemate 
       and the road to the Philadelphia convention -- Conclusion:
       the birth of the American empire. 
520    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. 
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651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y1783-1789. 
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