We chose to take them on, and despite all odds being against us, we won. Took us about seven years to get through that, but we won. And We reflexively, instinctively, put in place a weak system of national government under the Articles of Confederation, which ultimately failed. in large part because in our reflexive instinct to resist that which we had endured under British colonial rule, we had come to fear large, distant national governments. (07:39–07:51)
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Asserts that the Articles of Confederation created a weak national government that ultimately failed.
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