Articles of Confederation Themes
Politics
Politics is the art of distributing power through compromise…and what gives rise to basically all great satire.But only one of those key points is important in terms of the Articles of Confederat...
State's Rights
Everybody can agree to get along when it benefits them. But when you have to start making sacrifices…let's just say that's when singers go solo. The delegates of the Continental Congress needed a...
Majority vs. Minority
The Greek philosopher Plato once said that democracy often turns into "the tyranny of the majority." And this cynical opinion is exactly what Patrick Henry and other Anti-Federalists had on their m...
Power
American states declared independence in order to have their own government, but they weren't about to let that government turn into a roadblock against personal liberty. Influential thinkers of th...