“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness, you have to catch it.”
Benjamin Franklin The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America.
The creation of the Constitution was because the Articles of Confederation, it created major important history of the constitutional convention, and it was created for many reasons.
The Articles of Confederation instituted a “Firm league of friendship” between the United States.
Meaning, every state was civilized to its freedom, but joined together to have a common defense, security, and general welfare. The Constitution was very much needed because the men who wrote the Constitution of the U.S. believed that the U.S. needed a new plan in government because
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The southern states then made two ideas they gave in; one was to ban congress from taxing exports. The second one was to not allow congress to ban slaves. During, these debates none of the people contributed because they either agreed or disagreed. They came to a compromise saying that congress could not tax exports and no law could be passed to ban the slave trade until 1808. Lastly, another debate that occurred was how much power the president could have. At this time the congress knew they needed an executive, who would be called the president of the United States. The congress thought that he would have the power to veto legislature. The delegates finally came together to create a compromise of saying the president would be elected by electors from each of the states.
In the 1790s the Constitution was needed for many reasons, because the United States needed to be more constructed. The Constitution was amended 17 times in over 200 years. An example is the 14th amendment, which states the rights the people have from the laws, but before it was reconstructed there were many argumens made to try to prevent this amendment from being changed. Clarence Thomas stated that public school students dont have a right to the