Prof. Greg Jackson
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first heard Feb 2026
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But there's no power to tax, no executive leading, and big decisions require nine states in agreement.
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That's pretty much it.
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So again, this isn't a nation.
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It's closer to an alliance of 13 separate sovereign states.
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Nations.
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Basically an 18th-century version of NATO, or as the third of these articles puts it, and I quote, a league of friendship.
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Yeah, it's friends with benefits.
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But we know that, don't we?
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In episode 11, we saw how Congress's power to coin money, but not really manage it, created an all but worthless colonial dollar.
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In episode fourteen, we saw Congress's ability to raise an army but not tax to pay for it had continental officers ready to foment rebellion.
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If that lack of power to tax sounds crazy, remember, these guys just fought a war to break away from a king and a parliament that they saw as tyrannical, and taxation from above, not the local colonial level, was central to that tyranny.
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Thus, they've kept the power to tax with the states for fear that they'll recreate the very thing they just tore down.
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Understandable, but it isn't working.
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Congress's IOUs to soldiers and officers, and delinquent debts to France and Spain are strangling the young Union's neck.
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Nor is this Congress of the Confederation proving strong enough to settle disputes between the states.
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I mean, blood isn't being drawn in Vermont anymore, but that's no thanks to Congress.
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And besides, what is Vermont?
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New Yorkers claimed the region while it calls itself an independent republic and is threatening to join British Canada.
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Now what about Maryland and Virginia and their conflicting claims to navigation, fisheries, and other water rights on the Potomac?
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Where are you, Congress of the Confederation?
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