Mary 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
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the constitution grew out the Articles of Confederation as enacted by congress in 1778. The articles contemplated a “firm league of friendship‚” but each state was to maintain its “sovereignty‚ freedom‚ and independence”. The Articles soon proved faulty. Seven years of war had basically bankrupted the colonies. Currency was basically
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of the United States‚ which gave the national government more power‚ but kept them restrained through a system of checks and balances. States still decided smaller political matters‚ but much power was taken away from them that they held with the Articles of Confederation. Two groups emerged after the Convention‚ one for the ratification of the Constitution and the other against. The group
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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
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battled a long and intense war to free themselves from such an administration. Pioneers composed the new American government as indicated by a record known as the Articles of Confederation. The Articles gave every expression of freedom and spoke to minimal more than a group of companionship between them. The primary reason for the Articles was to build up a framework by which the states could co-work in the event that they expected to protect themselves against their
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Before the American Revolution occurred‚ the colonies had experienced a laissez-faire style of government imposed by the British. The British believed in the policy of salutary neglect‚ which refers to the policy of avoiding strict enforcement of laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. The American Revolution occurred due to mercantilist policies imposed by the British due to an effort to lower the tremendous amount of debt after the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The British
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"A Kind of Revolution" is an article written by Howard Zinn. I found the article from "A People’s History of the United States". Howard Zinn claims to show a series of controversial facts about the Constitution and how it ultimately contributed to the failure of the union because of the issues that were not resolved‚ and therefore caused controversy in the years leading up to the Civil War. Howard Zinn states that the Constitution only addresses how slaves were to be counted in terms of population
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This was taken on account of the states’ varying priorities on public policy and their considerable geographical scope. During the Constitutional Convention of 1787‚ the Founding Fathers debated the role of state sovereignty as indicated by the Articles of Confederation. While some emphasized how a small republic would be easier to maintain within the new nation‚ others argued for
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determining the effectiveness of training programs in organisations. Bregman and Jacobson’s article though introduces and attempts to determine whether organizations can successfully measure the business results of training through customer satisfaction levels. Whether or not a relationship does exist between training success and customer satisfaction is arguable. The underlying assumption the article attempts to express to readers is that when it comes to measuring the worthiness of training
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