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The Constitution of the United States created in 1787 provided the framework for an egalitarian society where every free white male had equal representation and therefore promoted social happiness. However, in 1787 there were many groups of people in the newly formed United States of America that were not addressed, or even disenfranchised by the new Constitution. This included slaves, free women, and American Indians. Whereas free white males had their liberties fully expressed by the constitution including fair and equal representation, social happiness should include every group within the United States as every person in the States should have a say in government. The Constitution gave hope to a lot of free white males. It ensured liberties and security for those who were addressed in the Constitution and it enabled people to succeed in their ventures. This document gave the Colonists the power to govern themselves. Though through this Constitution not …show more content…

In fact, due to the Constitution’s lack of addressing the Indian situation the U.S. was forced to fight and win the Battle of Fallen Timbers which led to the Treaty of Greenville in 1795. In the treaty, American Indian tribes ceded most of Ohio and Indiana to the United States in exchange for yearly grants of federal money- which only subjugated the tribes further as they are now dependent on the Federal Government. This does not promote social happiness. The Constitution also left the decision of citizenship of African Americans up to the states altogether giving up on the issue of slavery. Those African Americans that were fortunate enough to be free were in a totally different realm than those of the slaves. The free African Americans could be considered citizens of the United States while

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The Constitution… An improvement from a government that proved to be ill-conceived. The Articles of Confederation had not worked in the way that the states had hoped. A solution was to be found in the May of 1787 (BE). This solution was the Constitution.

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The land of the free wasn’t always the free.slavery has been in the U.S. since 1619 in Jamestown, virginia. Political, economic, and social factors impacted the lives of slaves and freed blacks during the time of the reconstruction by limiting their rights, working without profit, and working in harsh condition. Political factors impacted the lives of freed and enslaved blacks. “Consequently, the special rights and immunities guaranteed to citizens do not apply to them. And not being “citizens” within the meaning of the constitution, they are not entitled to sue in that character in a court of the united states…”

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The people are directly involved in decisions making. Also the Constitution has brought a fresh start in social life with The Bill of Rights ratified in 1791 and the abolition of slavery passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865. And the Right of women to vote ratified on August 18, 1920. It’s somehow important to mention that the Constitution is not really the rewrite of a new constitution but the revision of the Articles.

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The Constitution is a document written in the late 1700's that is supposed to outline how the government should be run, but in that process, the founding fathers had to make many compromises for it to be finalized and for all the states to agree. The main thing that caused there to be so many disagreements was slavery because some states wanted it to continue while others didn’t, which caused them to have to make compromises. The constitution protected slavery because the compromises that were made caused the southern states to only speed up the process of the slave trade instead of outlawing it right away. The reason behind this is that the biggest compromise that was made was that the slave trade couldn’t be outlawed by Congress until 1808, which caused the southern states to trade more slaves at a more rapid pace.

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Never directly mentioned in the Constitution, and commonly refereed to as “others”, African Americans were often denied existence in the Constitutional Conventions. James Madison embodied the complacency of the average white American man. Ellis describes his thinking as “a kind of mysterious region where ideas entered going in one direction but then emerged headed the opposite way.” (114). The Southern founding fathers, Madison included, acknowledged the moral evils of the slave trade but many of them slave owners themselves, did not desire an end to it, admittedly for their own profit.

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The Constitution will fix America and is critical to our safety. The Articles of Confederation are faulty and a stronger new national government is needed in order to be strong enough to protect the people. At the moment, National Government has no money or authority. Giving government power to tax helps us prosper and gives us more protection. Britain is still keeping forts on our land and Spanish will not let us use the Mississippi River.

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Previously, the colonists had problems with a faulty government and feared tyranny. When the colonists first had the opportunity to self-govern, The Articles of Confederation was formed and thus a poor example of government. The Articles of Confederation creating a weak, defenceless and powerless country. In the second attempt to create a more perfect government, the Constitution of the United States of America was formed. The colonists decided to place a guard against tyranny and thus, over 230 years after the writing of the Constitution of the United States, The Constitution in fact protects the states, the states rights and the citizens rights against tyranny.

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Are “all men created equal”? Why did the Constitution allow slavery to continue? The framers of the Constitution allowed slavery to continue because of political, economic, and social issues. They wanted their nation to be unified and the number of states to stay intact. They wanted to secure wealth and slavery was a great part of their economy.

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“Under the document, the United States had a very difficult time implementing effective foreign policy,” since the individual states couldn’t create their own foreign diplomacies, or negotiations, with foreign lands and the only power granted to the government was the creation of treaties with foreign countries. One of the main issues of America’s affairs with other countries during the Revolutionary War was with the British forts left on United States territory. When the war was coming to an end, British soldiers began leaving the United States, but left many of their garrisons, or forts, there. The Americans were not content with the forts left on their land, so they told the British to take them down and retreat all their men back to England. The British refused to obey the orders, claiming that the United States gaining the Northwest Territory, which was land from the west of what is now Pennsylvania and northwest of the Ohio River, would lead to war with the Indians, and said that they had left their posts “as a token of good will…” for the Natives.

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The assembling of the Constitution was a long and hardening process for the framers to take on their own during the summer of 1787. That being said nothing good is created without a little dispute. Although by the end of the Convention they had established the Constitution, there were still some unsettling ideas that needed to be set straight for the people. These deference's in ideals separated the United States people into the Federalist (supporting the ideas of the Constitution fully without any changes), and the Anti- Federalists (persons who wanted an established and undeniable writing that the rights and liberties of the people were secure among other things). These strains of the people were necessary in order for our Constitution to

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The Supreme Court ruled that Americans with African American descent may not be considered citizens of the United States (free or slave). They also could not participate in federal court decisions or sue the federal court. The Supreme Court noted that Congress didn’t have enough power to ban slavery in all of United States territories. The rights of slaveowners were protected by the Fifth Amendment because in that time, slaves were considered “property”.

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