Articles of Confederation

Bibliography

Articles

• Cain, Michael J., and Keith L. Dougherty. “Suppressing Shays' Rebellion: Collective Action and Constitutional Design under the Articles of Confederation.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 11, no. 2 (April 1999): 233–260.
• Lienesch, Michael. “Historical Theory and Political Reform: Two Perspectives on Confederation Politics.” Review of Politics 45, no. 1 (January 1983): 94–115.
• Lutz, Donald S. “The Articles of Confederation as the Background to the Federal Republic.” Publius 20, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 55–70.
• Maggs, Gregory E. “A Concise Guide to the Articles of Confederation as a Source for Determining the Original Meaning of the Constitution.” George Washington University Law Review 85 (2017): 397–450
• McCormick, Richard P. “Ambiguous Authority: The Ordinances of the Confederation Congress, 1781–1789.” American Journal of Legal History 41, no. 4 (October 1997): 411–439.
• Payne, Samuel B. “The Iroquois League, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.” William and Mary Quarterly 53, no. 3 (July 1996): 605–620.
• Rakove, Jack. “The Legacy of the Articles of Confederation.” Publius 12, no. 4 (Autumn 1982): 45–66.

Books

• Berkin, Carol. A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution. New York: Harcourt, 2002.
• Burnett, Edmund C. The Continental Congress. New York: Macmillian, 1941.
• Ellis, Joseph J. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783–1789. New York: Vintage, 2016.
• Flower, Milton E. John Dickinson: Conservative Revolutionary. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1983.
• Hoffert, Robert W. A Politics of Tensions: The Articles of Confederation and American Political Ideas. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1992.
• Jensen, Merrill. The New Nation: A History of the United States during the Confederation, 1781–1789. New York: Knopf, 1950.
• ———. The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970.
• Main, Jackson T. The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781–1788. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
• Manley, John F., and Kenneth M. Dolbeare, eds. The Case against the Constitution: From the Antifederalists to the Present. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1987.
• Van Cleve, George William. We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.