Prof. Greg Jackson
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1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4d ago
Prof. Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That has Americans thinking.
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As much as each state likes its sovereignty and independence, and we'll get to that.
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Maybe it's time to give Congress, that is, the United States, enough power to actually do its job, like regulate interstate trade and put down armed rebellions.
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As Mercy Otis Warren puts it,
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In other words, Shay's rebellion is the straw breaking the camel's back.
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So it's time to fix the Articles of Confederation.
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Maybe even replace the articles.
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And we're going to Philadelphia to do it.
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That's right.
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Today's story is the Constitutional Convention.
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Will bear witness as fifty-five men, particularly driven by our shortest founding father, James Little Jemmy Madison, deliberate, persuade, coax, and even threaten, but ultimately compromise on a new form of government that they hope will preserve the failing union and peace between them.
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But to better understand this unfolding drama, let's first back up, build on some knowledge from past episodes, and review the Articles of Confederation, so that we really grasp what's brought these states to the brink.
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Ready?
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Rewind.
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Though calling themselves the United States since seventeen seventy six, there's little united about these American states as the Revolutionary War comes to its official end in seventeen eighty three, and that is in no small part due to this Union's governing compact, the Articles of Confederation.
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In the works as of seventeen seventy six, completed in seventeen seventy eight and officially in effect once the thirteenth state, Maryland, ratified in seventeen eighty one, the Articles of Confederation did not create a national government.
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The thirteen states are still very independent.
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As Article II tells us, quote, each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.
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And just what is delegated to Congress?
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Foreign affairs, like diplomacy and war, some economic matters, like coining and borrowing money, and settling tiffs between the states.
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