John Steele Gordon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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And sometimes they did and sometimes they didn't.
And so then that way the Confederation was a bit like the UN today.
The UN doesn't have the power to tax, thank heavens.
And so they have to ask the member states to contribute money and sometimes they don't.
And so
In seventeen eighty six they had Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts.
It's a bunch of farmers who couldn't pay their taxes and the people in Boston were basically just gonna take the farms and so there was a rebellion led by Shea who was quickly put down.
But this led people to say, Look, this isn't working.
We need to amend the
The Articles of Confederation.
So they had a meeting in Philadelphia in seventeen eighty seven and the very first thing they did practically was to throw out the Articles of Confederation and begin Novo and the result was the United States Constitution, which has been a astonishing success.
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