Soon after the end of the Revolutionary War -- if not before -- it became clear that the Articles of Confederation were not a workable arrangement. Wartime contingency measures might have papered over the most immediate problems, but with the coming of peace something more regular was needed. The defects of the Articles produced a host of disputes among states, which could not be resolved under its terms, and which times were serious enough to lead to militia skirmishing.
More broadly, a fundamental issue had been left unresolved: Was the "United States" a nation in its own right, or a mere confederation of semi-aut
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