How well was the American Constitution designed to meet the problems faced by the USA after 1783?
After 1783, America faced many problems and issues that needed to be dealt with, and the constitution was to drawn up to solve many of these. However some do question the effectiveness of the constitution in eradicating these issues such as slavery and Federal vs State power.
With vast amounts of new territory opening up in the West, as stronger national government would be needed to manage and administer the development of these lands. For a strong government to be in place, the issue of deciding how to deal with the executive and how much power they had needed to be sorted out. It was decided that the federal government’s executive authority was to be exercised by a president who had many powers including commander in chief of the army and navy. To keep the process as democratic as possible, presidents were to be elected for four-year terms by an electoral college. Now that the whole army and navy was under control from one man, military rebellion from the likes of British soldiers, Spanish troops and even Algerian pirates could be quickly and precisely taken care of, which shows that the American constitution was very well designed in meeting these problems faced by the USA.
After 1783, there would be increasing economic and financial issues that would be best solved by a stronger federal government. There was therefore a call to decide on how to deal with the rising issue of federal vs state power in the constitution. The Virginia Plan, drawn up by James Madison (a southerner) called for two separate houses and for the representation to be determined by population and for the central government to be able to step in and veto state legislatures in necessary. However a northerner, William Patterson, came up with the New Jersey Plan which called for a single house with just the one vote per state and that state sovereignty be preserved. Both sides had their downfalls. If you went with Madison’s idea, then the big three states combined would control over
With vast amounts of new territory opening up in the West, as stronger national government would be needed to manage and administer the development of these lands. For a strong government to be in place, the issue of deciding how to deal with the executive and how much power they had needed to be sorted out. It was decided that the federal government’s executive authority was to be exercised by a president who had many powers including commander in chief of the army and navy. To keep the process as democratic as possible, presidents were to be elected for four-year terms by an electoral college. Now that the whole army and navy was under control from one man, military rebellion from the likes of British soldiers, Spanish troops and even Algerian pirates could be quickly and precisely taken care of, which shows that the American constitution was very well designed in meeting these problems faced by the USA.
After 1783, there would be increasing economic and financial issues that would be best solved by a stronger federal government. There was therefore a call to decide on how to deal with the rising issue of federal vs state power in the constitution. The Virginia Plan, drawn up by James Madison (a southerner) called for two separate houses and for the representation to be determined by population and for the central government to be able to step in and veto state legislatures in necessary. However a northerner, William Patterson, came up with the New Jersey Plan which called for a single house with just the one vote per state and that state sovereignty be preserved. Both sides had their downfalls. If you went with Madison’s idea, then the big three states combined would control over