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Today, episode 141, the Continental Congress returns to Philadelphia.

When we last left Congress in the winter of 1776-77, they had fled Philadelphia for Baltimore. The British in New Jersey had

threatened to take Philadelphia and the politicians did not want to be there if that

happened.

General Washington, of course, eliminated that threat when he crossed the Delaware

and captured the enemy at Trenton and Princeton,

then forced the British and Heshins to pull back their front lines to the area of

North Jersey around New York City.

With the threat removed, Congress returned to Philadelphia in March 1777.

Not everyone else returned though.

John Adams in a letter to his wife noted that

more than one half of the inhabitants remove themselves into the country.

Most of those who remained were Quakers, who Adams called dull as beetles. Although everyone expected that the British

would make another attempt on Philadelphia in the summer of 1777 for the moment in the spring there was no emergency.

Congress once again turned its attention to the Articles of Confederation, a document that would authorize and define Congress's authority to do, well, anything.

They did not actually agree on much of anything, but they did agree to devote at least two days each week to working out an

agreeable plan. By the end of April, they had agreed to three articles, one of which contained the name of the document, a second which affirmed

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