EPISODE DESCRIPTION:

Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by George Washington’s Mount Vernon’s Dr. Douglas Bradburn to discuss the events that culminated in the Constitutional Convention and the ratification of the Constitution. The Articles of Confederation created a weak and loose connection among the states. Rather than amending them, the founders threw them out and imagined a new, stronger federal government. Do we understand the document in the same way today as its composers did in the eighteenth century?

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TRANSCRIPT: coming soon

OUTLINE:

0:00 - Introduction

1:25 - The Articles of Confederation Explained

7:22 - What is The Critical Period

10:41 - The Origins of the US as a Confederation

12:16 - The American Revolution vs the Dutch Revolt

13:32 - The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

19:28 - The Impact of the Northwest Ordinance

24:16 - How we Amended The Articles of Confederation

27:10 - How did we get to the Constitutional Convention

36:35 - What Happened at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

39:47 - The Executive Explained

51:57 - How They Changed the Constitution

55:17 - What is Nullification

1:04:38 - An Imperfect Solution to Governing

EPISODE LINKS:

George Washington’s Mount Vernon - https://www.mountvernon.org

Articles of Confederation - https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/articles-of-confederation

Continental Congress – https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/continental-congress#:~:text=The%20Continental%20Congress%20was%20the,years%20of%20the%20American%20Revolution.

Richard Henry Lee’s Resolution – https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/lee-resolution

Declaration of Independence - https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania - https://history.delaware.gov/john-dickinson-plantation/dickinsonletters/pennsylvania-farmer-letters/

The “Critical Period” - https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5655/#:~:text=The%20%22Critical%20Period%22%20of%20American,or%20the%20worst%20of%20times.

A Revolutionary Wave: Dutch and American Patriots in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World - https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wd94067

The Northwest Ordinance - https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/northwest-ordinance#:~:text=The%20Northwest%20Ordinance%20chartered%20a,rights%20guaranteed%20in%20the%20territory.

The Potomac Company - https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/the-potomac-company/

The Virginia Plan - https://www.senate.gov/civics/common/generic/Virginia_Plan_item.htm#:~:text=Introduced%20to%20the%20Constitutional%20Convention,of%20Representatives)%20with%20proportional%20representation.

The Return of George Washington by Edward Larson - https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-return-of-george-washington-edward-j-larson?variant=32207581020194

The Whiskey Rebellion - https://www.britannica.com/event/Whiskey-Rebellion

Representation Debate in the Constitutional Convention - https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/equal-state-representation.htm#:~:text=During%20the%20summer%20of%201787,in%20the%20House%20of%20Representatives.

Bill of Rights - https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights/what-does-it-say#:~:text=The%20Bill%20of%20Rights%20is,speech%2C%20press%2C%20and%20religion.

Nullification of Federal Laws - https://www.britannica.com/topic/nullification-crisis

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions - https://www.britannica.com/event/Virginia-and-Kentucky-Resolutions

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