weak power given to the government by the Articles of Confederation caused a rebellion in Massachusetts during the year 1786. The attack of a federal arsenal by Shay’s rebellion caused public outcry for drastic changes for a stronger national government. The discussed ideas on a stronger national government were brought to the Constitutional Convention of 1787‚ eventually leading to the creation of a constitution much stronger than the Articles of Confederation. With the creation of a new constitution
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and that the Constitution would make the rich‚ richer and the poor‚ poorer. To start off‚ one point he argued was that the Founding Fathers were supposed to meet in Philadelphia to revise and improve the Articles of Confederation. Instead‚ they decided to get rid of the Articles of Confederation and start from scratch without the approval from anybody or anybody knowing what they were doing. Secondly‚ when people first heard about the new government‚ “the wealthy looked to the national government
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Following the Revolutionary War‚ many tribulations arose in the newly independent thirteen colonies. Problems such as disunity‚ slavery‚ foreign/interstate relations‚ land disputes‚ and national debt led to the formation of the Articles of Confederation in 1777. America’s first constitution‚ however‚ only lasted ten years until fifty-five delegates met in Philadelphia with the same common purpose: to preserve the American union‚ protect the American democracy from abroad‚ and curb the unrestrained
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From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation did not provide the U.S. with an effective government because of the weakness of the Articles. The Constitution is stronger and much more effective than the Articles. Under the Articles congress could not collect money‚ we couldn’t pay our bills‚ and the government had no good way to stop rebellion. The constitution improved on this in many ways. I don’t think the Articles would be so bad if we did not have to compare them to the much greater Constitution
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Constitution on March 4‚ 1789. |what didn’t and used the Articles Of confederation | | |Reference: WWW.LOC.GOV. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html |as a base to write the constitution. | |Northwest Ordinance |The
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created the Articles of Confederation. This upset many colonists and thats when Daniel Shays led the famous Shays Rebellion. “The government needed an extra push to figure out that the system wasn’t working for the country.” (9-17-13). This made people realize that the Articles of Confederation wasn’t the best government set up for the newly created country‚ so they began work on the Constitution. Shay had to rebel because‚ “ it would take too many people to amend the Articles of Confederation.” (9-17-13)
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There are some problems with the Articles of Confederation‚I will explain the federal government and the state government. The framers of the constitution gave more power to the to the federal government rather than the states‚ Federalists and Anti-Federalists argued and fought over who should have more power. But it all had to come down to one or the other having more power. There are 13 articles in the constitution‚ the anti-federalists were all about the articles becuase it gave more power to the
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restrained by the others.” (The Founders’ Constitution‚ 2000) There was another problem for the new nation: the Articles of Confederation; where the war of independence had been fought under these and it worked essentially as a loose league of independent states. The whole authorities that were vaguely granted to the Confederation were held in reserve to the states in which the Articles specifically noted that the states retained their “sovereignty‚ freedom and independence” (Jones‚ 1995‚ p.
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When the U.S. constitution was made it there was a long debate over the ratification of the constitution. There were two sides in the debate‚ the Federalists‚ who were supporter of the new constitution‚ and were better‚ organized than their opponents‚ and the Federalists had the support of the most respected men in America‚ George Washington‚ and Benjamin Franklin. The other side of the debate was the Antifederalists‚ who opposed ratification; although they weren’t as organized as the Federalists
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Federalist‚ they want a strong national government and were all for the approval of the Constitution to aid the debt and tensions. To be consider an Anti- Federalist‚ they were people who opposed a strong federal government and were for the Article of Confederation instead. They preferred for the power to remain in the state and local governments. Some major points of disagreement between the Federalist and Antifederalist visions of the United States were central government and important documents.
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