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The Story Of The Constitution In the middle of the Revolutionary War, delegates, a group of people representing each state, were able to come together to draft a formal letter to break away from the British. Thomas Jefferson was the man with the plan, he is known for the infamous document know as the Declaration of Independence. Essentially, the Declaration was just a breakup letter to King George III, it justifies the reasons why the colonies should become an independent country. Once the letter was written, it was sent over to the King and surprisingly, he did not respond. His only response was mentioning the Declaration during his address to Parliament, but that was it. He didn’t even send a letter back. King George III was more focused …show more content…

What if something like this happened again? The government won’t be able to anything and the outcome may be even worse that Shays’ Rebellion. Everyone agreed that something had to be done about the Articles of Confederation. 55 delegates, each from different states, came together, in Philadelphia, with a purpose to revise and change the Articles of Confederation. This meeting was a huge turning point in the U.S and came to be known as the Constitutional Convention. Some of the delegates that attended the Convention were George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and Roger Sherman, just to name a few. They began to think of ways the improve the AOC, but soon realized the only to save and unify the country was to get rid of AOC and create an entirely new government; making it stronger and giving it more power than it had …show more content…

The legislative branch makes and changes laws and is made up of the Senate and House of Reps. The Executive Branch carries out the laws of the government and is composed of the President, Cabinet, and Vice President. The last branch is the Judical: made up of Supreme court, it is responsible for deciding whether laws agree with the Constitution or not. These three branches displayed the idea of separation of power, because each branch has a bit of power but none has more than the other. The Constitution was written and completed at the Constitutional Convention, the delegates were on one accord and ready to get this new form of government started. The last thing to do was to ratify Constitution, or get it approved by all the other states. This wasn’t as simple as seemed though. During the Convention, ideas clashed, people argued, and two opposing sides were created: anti-federalists and federalists. Some did not like the idea of creating a stronger national government, they wanted to keep the Articles of Confederation and wanted states to continue to have the power, these people were the anti-federalists. The federalist were all for the new form of government and wanted to ratify the

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How would you like it if you and a group worked really hard on a project and thought it was perfect just the way it was. Then some people come around and decide it's not good enough so they try and change it or just make a completely new one .Well that's what happen with the articles confederation. Rufus king or the delegate of massachusetts thought it they were all good and didn't want to make any changes. He was one of the youngest delegates at the age of thirty three.

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The author argues that at the time, the people didn’t want a completely new government but rather just a fixing of the defects in the Articles. The author even shows this when it is stated that the Constitutional Convention was convened for the, “express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation” (Farrand 534). All of the people at the time would only coalesce for the purpose of revising the Articles, not for creating an entirely new government. Additionally, one of the members of the convention (Roger Sherman) even stated that, “the object of our convention is to amend these defects.” (Farrand 538).

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Many Americans grew upset with the Confederation government. So Alexander Hamilton a lawyer and General’s Aid to George Washington decided to change the Articles of the Confederation. He called on the National Convention to overhaul the document. He requested that Congress call upon all of the states to attend a gathering in Philadelphia. George Washington was the first to arrive in Philadelphia giving the large amounts of creditability for the meeting bringing 55 men from all of the states.

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The debate was during the ratification of the Constitution. The anti-federalists believed that it gave too much power to the federal government. While both sides agreed that something different from the Articles of Confederation had to be created, many were uncomfortable with how far the Constitution went, and worried that the states would lose their sovereignty. The Federalists supported the Constitution, because they believed that the nation could only succeed with a strong national government.

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This despised action caused a turning point in government at the time because of Shay’s rebellion. Thanks to Daniel Shays, whom was one of many fed up with the weak articles, they finally came to an end during the constitutional convention which was composed of representatives from each state except Rhode Island. The convention, for the most part, was all for giving the power back to the national government so the issues of taxation and foreign commerce could be better handled. This newfound power the government was about to have was going to be based off the newly written fundamental laws called the constitution. First, the convention had to decipher between two ideas about representation, the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey plan.

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The Constitution was scribed subsequent to the delegation that occurred at the Constitutional Convention, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This document was intended to be an improvement of the Articles of Confederation, in which the ending result was an entirely new government called the republic. The idea of institutionalizing a constitution created differences between the participants of the meeting. Those who opposed the idea of a new government and the constitution were called the Antifederalists and those who supported the ratification of the Constitution were federalists, which is the idea of federalism vs. state’s rights. The Constitution failed to protect the rights of the civilians despite Federalists attempts to persuade individuals

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The constitutional convention was like a mouse trap. We are in a time where we consider our current condition to be unstable and unorganized as a country. We are fed lies about how astonishing our current government is, but in reality there are many aspects that are needed to be fixed. Many claim to have a vast knowledge on our broken system, yet they do less than the minimum in order to fix it. On the contrary, once the colonies got their Independence, there was one person who did see the mistakes that were in the Articles of Confederation.

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When the Constitution was sent to the state legislatures for ratification, there was disagreement. The delegates began to separate into two groups: the people that approved it were known as Federalists and the opposing side were known as the Anti-Federalists. One of the

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Due to the pathetic turnout of only 6 representatives it became clear that the limitations of the Articles of Confederation were crippling the development of the new country. In 1787 delegates gathered in Philadelphia in hopes to revise the Articles of Confederation. What ended up happening were not minor revisions or tweaks, a completely new charter of the government was drafted, now known as the Constitution. These changes brought fear to some, such as Rawlin Lowndes. He debated the adoption of the federal constitution, suggesting “Would it not be better to add strength to the old Confederation, instead of hastily adopting another” (Doc H).

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