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The documentary evidence of Confederation failure: requisition returns, the impost amendments of seventeen eighty-one and seventeen eighty-three, interstate duties, treaty non-compliance, and contested currency data.
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The architecture of the Articles of Confederation as a deliberate answer to imperial rule, and the achievements of the government it created.
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What the arrangement charges the people who take it — money, liberty of action, and the right to settle your own disputes by force — what the comparative record can and cannot establish about capable states and how people live, and the method contract a listener can hold this show to.
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Five competing explanations for why people with no authority over them build rules within weeks — fear, prior rights, divided power, who speaks for everyone, and order nobody designed — and the bet the framers made when they built a structure that runs on self-interest instead of virtue.
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What people with no courts, no sheriff, and no recorded law actually build — the California mining district codes, the overland emigrant company articles, and the medieval Icelandic assembly — and who those rules were written to protect.
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What Genthos Media is, what Stone Ground Reality is, and how to listen to it.