Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

The Articles of Confederation, however, limited Congress to those powers “expressly” listed. There were no implied powers. Some advocates of states' rights interpret the Tenth Amendment ...

Under Article IX of the Articles of Confederation, disputes between the states (which mostly involved the settlement of land claims to the west) were settled in a convoluted manner: Congress would ...

When America was founded, states were viewed as the most powerful ... first by the Articles of Confederation and then by the Constitution. The founders expected the federal government to deal ...

But already, it threatened to crumble. Although the Articles of Confederation had organized the 13 states into a loose union, the Articles proved inadequate to the task of effectively governing ...

When Manitoba entered Confederation in 1870, British Columbia was still an isolated British colony on the West Coast. In March 1867, the United States had bought Alaska leaving British Columbia ...