Articles Of Confederation And The Constitution Essay

The Articles of Confederation was overall a weak alternative to running a country such as the United States and it was proven weak after Shay’s Rebellion, there was a “Second Founding” where Constitution was established. The major governing principles that lie at the heart of the Constitution are comparable and contrastable with those of the Articles of Confederation. There were means written into the Constitution to institutionalize the ideals of a “limited government.” There were issues such as the rights of the states that divided the delegates, which were resolved in the Constitution. The major governing principles that lie at the heart of the Constitution that contrasts with those of the Articles of Confederation such as legislation, Congress, executive role, national judiciary, ratification of amendments, ex post facto laws, and taxation. Legislation under the Articles of Confederation stated …show more content…
Such laws are specifically prohibited by the U. S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9. Therefore, if a state legislature or Congress enact new rules of proof or longer sentences, those new rules or sentences do not apply to crimes committed before the new law was adopted” (ex post facto, n.d.).
In simpler terms ex post facto means that once a law was created no penalty could be extended from a crime committed before the law was passed but once in effect the punishment would be more for anyone committing the crime after the passing of the law. Before the ratification of the constitution the ex post facto laws were “not forbidden” (Comparing the Articles and Constitution, n.d.), but after the ratification of the Constitution the ex post facto laws were “forbidden in both states and Congress” (Comparing the Articles and Constitution,