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    United States History The Confederation and Constitution Study Questions Chapter 9 1. In the Revolutionary period through 1783-1789‚ there were a lot of statements and rights regarding tyranny effects. US Constitution gave out the laws that actually formed the government. Most importantly‚ Bill of Rights that have first 10 amendments regarding the constitution that gave the US all of the important statements that were used in the Declaration of Independence. Also‚ Thomas Jefferson stated how

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    German Unification (1850-1871) Summary Whereas Camillo di Cavour directed Italian unification‚ a Junker (the Prussian name for an aristocratic landowner from old Prussia in the east) named Otto von Bismarck pushed German unification through "blood and iron" and skillful understanding of realpolitik. As the map of central Europe stood in 1850‚ Prussia competed with Austria for dominance over a series of small principalities fiercely keen on maintaining their independence and distinctive characteristics

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    Contents From the years 1781 to 1789‚ the United States of America were governed under a document known as the Articles of Confederation. Prior to the ratification of today’s United States Constitution‚ this paper was the layout for the federal government that united the separate thirteen colonies in their movement for independence from Britain. It was put to the test as an effective form of command by a number of problems and events that arose shortly

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    were especially prominent in state politics. There are a multiple of ways that these 2 political parties can be compared such as the articles of confederation‚ their supporters‚ and the bill of rights. The Federalists had more of the upper hand. Not only did they have favor

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    years later our Founding Fathers saw us heading in the same direction. A sense of that same tyrany could eventually be found in the formerly written Articles of Confederation; which was specifically created to erase the tyrany our nation’s citizens had loathed for so long. To say that the Founding Fathers scrapped the Articles of Confederation solely for personal gain is leaving out so many variables. If I were a delegate to the Convention‚ and upon arriving I heard the reasoning for writing a new Constitution

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    effectually checked and 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”

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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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    The U.S. has just won its independence from Britain. A new form of government needs to be instituted. Out came the Articles of Confederation. Under the articles the federal government had very little power. It was quite clear the articles would not last for long. The next form of government would be under the Constitution. Now the federal government would have considerably more power‚ but now the problem of forcing the nation to respect that new found power became more prominent. By nature when a

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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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    Bodunde 11/16/10 period 30 1. Thomas Jefferson once said he believed that "all the good" of the new constitution might have been accomplished by simply amending the Article of confederation. According to the text’s authors‚ it is probably a good thing that the Fonding Fathers did not merely amend the Articles of confederation. with which position do you agree? Why? 2. Why didn’t the leaders of the American Revolution extend their spirit of equality to the abolition of slavery and giving women the

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