After the Revolutionary War, the newly formed United States still had to deal with an important task ahead of them. They had to form a new government that would satisfy the demands of the people and ensures the success of their nation. The Articles of Confederation was the first system of government that was presented and put into effect. This attempt to create a system that protected the American citizens from a strong central government did not go very well as it ultimately failed, however, this was an important step in the development of the current democratic system. The weaknesses bestowed by the Articles of Confederation helped lead to reforms that made the Constitution successful. The Constitution, as well as the Articles, demonstrates …show more content…
A few of the rights the Constitution granted American citizens were freedoms of religion, press, and expression.1 It had also removed the quartering of soldiers in their homes and gave the people the security of being safe within their own self, home, and papers.2 Everybody also had the right to a trial and punishment along with compensation for takings. But, most importantly the people now had the right to vote by ballot for the President and Vice-President.3 These are only a third of the twelve Amendments written in the Constitution that granted the American citizens more rights than ever before. What the people got through the Constitution was basically a sort of “social inclusion" type of government which gave the citizens a larger part in the decisions of what would be executed for the newly founded United States of …show more content…
Quite simply, the founding fathers were extremely proud of what the colonies had already accomplished. Having just won the Revolutionary War, (a war that was fought in search of independence from Britain) the founding fathers did not want to tarnish the hard-fought accomplishments of the colonists, concluding that new terms of government would be better suited for the newly found Americas rather than soil what had already been achieved. “When we consider this government, we ought to make great allowances. We must calculate the impossibility that every state should be gratified in its wishes, and much less that every individual should receive this gratification. It has never been denied, by the friends of the paper on the table, that it has defects; but they do not think that it contains any real danger” [From Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, vol. 3 (1836; New York: Burt Franklin Reprints, 1974), pp. 86–89, 93–96, 128–29, 135, 616–17. Madison’s Defense of the Constitution at the Virginia Convention, 24 June 1788.] This counter statement says that every state cannot be granted every one of their wishes, but his rebuttal states that an alternative should be considered. The alternative that he presented was a majority vote of nine states. If nine states shall adopt whatever presented, then it could come