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The Articels of Confederation
John Dickinson wrote the artices of Confederation.
The rules of the Articles of Confederation were the 13 Articles. These are just the first Five.
1) Offically made union name as "The United States of America"
2)Powers were still held by state governmnets that weren't in the Articles of confredation
3) the union is refred to as "leage of friendship" This had the states defend each other from ambushes
4) Citizens will be able to travel between states free of hassle and criminals are sent back to were the crime was commited for trial
5)The congress of confederation was established and every state got a vote. Delegationscould also be sent with 2-7 members
Shays rebellion was a rebellion against the new taxes after the American Revolution. After the American revolution the taxes and laws were all out of control. The new Americans started struggling to pay the taxes so they started to protest. This group was lead by Daniel Shays. Their group went around and started a series of attacks. This was another reason that people started to beleive that they needed a new form of government and way to run things in the new country.
The Articals of Confedration had to be ratified to be official. This meant all of the thirteen states had to approve. The first state was virginia on December 16 1777 and maryland was the last on February 2, 1781.
The ideas for the Articles of Confederation came from the Americanr Revoution. After war the colonies agreed that an official form of govenrment was nessacary. The Colonies wanted a hardcopy of wrighten rules the states all agreed to the things that the ariticles allowed. This inculled such as creating laws, printing money,and rasing an army by the Congress.
Although the Articles of Confederation worked at first for a new country formed during the time of the American Revolution, it haf several problems.Ssome of them were not having any power to raise money. This inculed things such as taxing, laws passed by congress, court systems, and even though a state could be extremly large each state still only had one vote in Congress. These flaws and more caused the Articles of Confederation to fail and be replaced by the U.S. Constitution.
"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. "
The Constitution has 27 amendments,These are the rules that our country follows. The firs t ten amendments of the Constitution were the bill of rights. When James Madison wrote the Constitution many people were still agaisnt signing it. Since at first the Constitution didn't have a bill of rights it created lots of conflict. James Maddison wrote 12 of the 27 amendments. In 1789 and represented them to Congress. Only 10 ended up being passed, therfore creating the biil of rights. Theses amedments known as the Bill of Rights inculed the right to be armed, no troops can be in any private homes, ect. All of amendments added up to becoming the bill of rights.
Who wrote it?
We Can't have a constitution without someone writing it. So the big question is Who wrote it? The answer is James Madison. Many of James Madisons
ideas were incoperated in the final copy of the Consitution, which is also why he's also known as the Father of The Constitution.
We Can't have a constitution without someone writing it. So the big question is Who wrote it? The answer is James Madison. Many of James Madisons I deas were incoperated in the Final copy of the Consitution, which is also why he's also known as the Father od the Constitution.
The ideas behind the Constitution came from the Constitutional Convention and Magna Carta. This convention was held to finaly decide how america would be governed, holding the convention in secret allowed delegates to speak freely. They debated wether to change the Articles of Confederation or not. As they discussed they realized that the states needed a new Constitution. The main idea was to create a government that wouldn't impose on the right of people or the state's rights,but had a enough power to run a country.
-7 Articles of The Constitution-
Legislative Power
Executive Power
Judicial Power
The rules of the constitution are the current 27 admendments and Bill of rights The Rules of the constitution were also talked about in the seven articles of the Constitution
States Powers & Limits
Admendments
Ratification
Federal Power
Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution only needed 9 out of the 13 states to ratify the Constitution. Delaware was the first stae to vote yes for ratification on December 7, 1787. The last state to vote yes to the Constituition was Rhode Island sometime in May of 1790. Through 1789-1790 the Constitution was put into effect for the Unites staes.
The government was split into three seperate branches. The legislative power, the executive power, and the judicial power. They did this so that no one section of government would have to much power. Each branch keeps the other two in line and can change the actions of the other branches.
The legislative branch is the congress. The congress is two things, the house of representative and the senate. The congress as a whole makes laws, comfirming elections, makes the taxes, and can declare war. The house of representatives and the Senate are made up of either representatives or senators from all of the states in America. They both represent their states and create bills that later go on to the president.
The executive branch is made up of the President, vice president, and the cabinet. The presidents main job is to sign laws from the congress. The president can either turn the ideas into a law or to veto it. However if enough people from the Congress agree with the law, they can over turn it and it can become a law. The president also is in charge of our treaties with other countries and they sign them. The vice president and the cabinet both help the President.
The judicial branch is made up of the supreme court. The supreme court is judges who interperet the laws that are made. In this, they decide if the law that is going to be passed goes against anything in the US constitution. The judicial branch also holds the court trials and decide the fair punishment for people who have broken the law.
The branches keep eachother in check by balancing
power in laws that can be made. First the legislative branch comes up with the law then sends it to the President who can then veto the law but, the legislative branch can overturn that law and then it goes the the judicial branch who decides wether the law is constitutional or not. The legislative branch also elects the presideant and can also remove them from office. The president also nominates the supreme court judges. This is how they balance the power out and make sure that no one branch has too much power.
The Articles of Confederation failed and the Constitution succeded because the Constitution was organized and the Articles of Confederation was not. We had to address the issues with who had power so we could avoid conflict with one person having to much power. So, we created a government with three branches, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.