Tiffany Baker October 22‚ 2011 Period 0 Chapter 9 Outline The Confederation and the Constitution I. The Pursuit of Equality A. Fight of separation of church and state with the Congregational Church‚ and the Anglican Church. 1. The Anglican Church struggled for divorce between religion and government. 2. Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers won a complete victory with the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. B.
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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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fifth article of the Constitution is devoted to the process by which amendments are proposed and adopted. This article is extremely important‚ as it allows the Constitution to stand the test of time. Without the amendment process‚ it is unlikely that the Constitution would have lasted as long as it has. Under the Articles of Confederation it was much harder to pass any amendments; as a result of this the Constitution includes two separate ways in which amendments can be proposed. The Articles of Confederation
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Critique of The Birth of the Republic. In his book‚ The Birth of the Republic‚ Edmund S. Morgan puts forth an account of the quarter century span‚ from 1763-1789‚ in which the American Republic was born. This work provides a detailed description of what historians call “The Revolutionary Era” in American history. Morgan seems to be making the argument that while the revolution may have begun for economic reasons‚ and that the founding fathers may have stood to gain financially from it‚ it eventually
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Madison. At the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention‚ James Madison drafted what is known as the Virginia Plain. All of the delegates were convinced that something must replace the weak Articles of Confederation‚ but what Madison planned was an altogether different form of government. The Articles of Confederation were a lose alliance of thirteen independent and sovereign states‚ with no one centralized government. The Virginia Plan proposed instead a central government with a legislative branch
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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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together. This was a way to get around the Articles of Confederation because the federal government could not tax the people. So the federal government started to tax the states more which then caused the states to have to tax their people. If you could not pay the tax then they would shut you down or foreclose you. This hurt many of the small farmers and also the small stores. Some of the other effects were that the faults of the Articles of Confederation were demonstrated. This made the state leaders
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41. Shays Rebellion was significant because it made the American delegates realize that the states had too much power and the central government didn’t have enough power. This assumption led to the revisions of the articles of confederation which led to the being written constitution. 42. The great compromise was presented by Roger Sherman in 1787. There was a political dispute the included Virginia and New Jersey. At the Constitutional Convention there was a plan drafted that would subside the
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government‚ most of their provisions have since been applied to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment‚ a process known as incorporation. The amendments were introduced by James Madison to the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articles. They were adopted by the House of Representatives on August 21‚ 1789‚ formally proposed by joint resolution of Congress on September 25‚ 1789‚ and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15‚ 1791‚ through the process of ratification
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The political push to increase cooperation among the then-loyal colonies began with the Albany Congress in 1754 and Benjamin Franklin’s proposed intercolonial collaboration to help solve mutual local problems themselves; the Articles of Confederation would bear some resemblance to it. Over the next two decades‚ some of the basic concepts it addressed would strengthen and others would weaken‚ particularly the degree of deserved loyalty to the crown. With civil disobedience resulting in coercive and
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