Pros And Cons Of The Us Constitution

Before we knew it as the United States Constitution, we all knew it as the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was just too weak as in: each state had one vote in Congress, there was no executive branch to enforce laws passed by Congress, there was no national court system, and etc… Before it could be ratified there was great concern between the delegates that were present at the convention. The main concern they had was the type of legislature. The representatives of larger states wanted the seats in the legislature to be determined by the size of the state. The representatives from the smaller states wanted to have equal representation in Congress. They negotiated on this situation by allowing a bicameral legislature,
which the HOR (House of Representatives) was determined by the state size and a Senate where each state would have two representatives. Another issue they had to deal with was the southern and northern states having conflicts over slavery. The South was for slavery and the North did not care for it. The North wanted to ban slavery completely. A compromise was reached when they decided that Congress could lay down the law about slavery, but not until a certain year, which gave the South more time to have slaves and do trades. The representatives had to get the states themselves to also want to ratify the new deed. Despite the fact the new changes would help strengthen the central government, the new constitution created a strong executive branch and also allowed the Congress the power to tax and raise an army. After debating and coming to many conclusions later the states finally decided to ratify the Constitution