After America declared independence from England in 1776, the american founding fathers, worked hard to make a new government run by the people and succeeded when in October 1777, John Dickinson wrote the Articles of Confederation. Their first attempted at federalism was politically weak, born from their horror of a strong central government. It gave the states more power then the federal government (figure 1), creating a weak economy, relating to the fact that the federal government could not require taxes from the states. Consequently, because of lack of unity between state, the the Articles of Confederation also weakened America’s foreign policy, as each state made separate treaties with other nations. Politically, economically and nationally,
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One day the leaders of each house get together to discuss their problem and find a solution. They conclude the meeting when they deiced to hire ‘night watch’ and each contribute equal amount of money to pay for a guard. For a whole week nothing goes wrong, but when they get together again to collect more money and discus protection from fire etc., the leaders of the smaller house rose a complaint: “Our house are less of a treat, we should pay less, and you with the biggest house should pay more.” The bout continued with each side giving an argument, the leaders of the bigger houses argued that if they were going to pay more they should have more authority, while the smaller house leaders snapped back that even though they were smaller they were just as important and should share equal authority. The noise grew to a colossal level until, one leader called for silence, the leader called for compromise, as they discussed they came up with a system of government with fair representatives and ‘taxes,’ all held under a system of checks and balances. Now turn the leaders into state delegates, the discussion into the Constitutional Convection and the final dissuasion in the the Constitution, now the summer of 1787, and the previous events, click into
One day the leaders of each house get together to discuss their problem and find a solution. They conclude the meeting when they deiced to hire ‘night watch’ and each contribute equal amount of money to pay for a guard. For a whole week nothing goes wrong, but when they get together again to collect more money and discus protection from fire etc., the leaders of the smaller house rose a complaint: “Our house are less of a treat, we should pay less, and you with the biggest house should pay more.” The bout continued with each side giving an argument, the leaders of the bigger houses argued that if they were going to pay more they should have more authority, while the smaller house leaders snapped back that even though they were smaller they were just as important and should share equal authority. The noise grew to a colossal level until, one leader called for silence, the leader called for compromise, as they discussed they came up with a system of government with fair representatives and ‘taxes,’ all held under a system of checks and balances. Now turn the leaders into state delegates, the discussion into the Constitutional Convection and the final dissuasion in the the Constitution, now the summer of 1787, and the previous events, click into