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Articles of Confederation Pocket-sized Hardcover Book

Articles of Confederation Pocket-sized Hardcover Book

  • Made in the U.S.A.
  • Hardcover: 32 pages
  • 6 3/4 X 4 1/4 X 3/8 inches
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  • This handy pocket-sized hardcover edition contains the preamble, conclusion, and all thirteen articles that make up the Articles of Confederation. The original document was passed by the Continental Congress in 1777, and later ratified by the states in 1781. Though the Articles of Confederation was not successful in creating a strong federal government, it did establish a set of rules for politics and governance that do, in some ways, still persist today. This document was replaced by the U.S. Constitution in 1789.

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  • The Articles of Confederation, often called this Nation's first constitution, defined the former colonies as a confederation of 13 sovereign states bound loosely in a "league of friendship." This document consists of six sheets of parchment stitched together. The last sheet bears the signatures of delegates from all 13 states.

    The original Articles of Confederation is preserved and held in trust by the National Archives’ Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention.

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Phillip Ecklund
Articles of Confederation.

I received the pocket sized hardcover version of "The Articles of Confederation". the book was sent to me promptly after I made the online order and was well packaged, arriving in excellent, pristine condition.
I found this pocket-sized book to be a handy referenced while reading Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton", particularly in the section where Hamilton is critiquing the "Articles of Confederation" for not providing sufficient federal power over the states to resolve unity and debt crises - with Hamilton's critiques leading to the writing of the "Federalist Papers".

Mr. Ecklund, this is interesting to know. Thank you for sharing this with us and we are glad to hear that the book arrived in ship-shape. We appreciate your review and your support for the National Archives.