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Why didn't the leaders of the American Revolution extend their spirits of equality to the abolition of slavery and giving the woman right to vote? |
The reason why the management of slavery and women's rights to vote didn't happen was because of the fact that slaves were not seen on an equal level as farmers or other humans as well as women were not too important either. |
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Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, especially in regards and the specific power granted by each to national government. |
Both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution were made simply to create an efficient way of government. The Articles of Confederation had more power to the people type of government, this government gave most of its power to the States. On the other hand the Constitution was made from the fact that national government itself needed greater power rather than the states. The Articles of Confederation where in other words a draft for the later draft 4 the later to come Constitution. |
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Write a definition of democracy. Then use the definition to Valerie Constitution as it was penned in 1787. In what ways was it a democratic document, and in what ways did it guard against democracy? |
Democracy - a former government where the power resides with the people. What made the Constitution a democracy was the fact that he had two legislative branches House of Representatives and the Senate. The Senate was a fixed number of people that presented the state. House of Representatives would depend on the population. The votes of anything would be run by through the house and then through the electors electors would have finally decided what or who is voted upon making the last choice there for in a way the Constitution was somewhat a democracy giving men the right to vote little do they know though that they did not have the last say the electors were the ones with the last input. |
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Historian Charles beard described the Constitution as a reactionary phase of the Revolutionary era. What does he mean by this, and what could have led him to this conclusion? |
What he meant was the Constitution was written by the rich, the reason why he came to this conclusion was because they are selfish and they want only to protect their wealth. He believe this was because of the change of laws from the articles to the Constitution that enforce the money. For example 1 law would do the taxing of good so that the Wells he would make more money off of selling their own in home goods rather than buying imported goods. |
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List all the reasons why the article Confederation needed to be replaced in order of importance, starting with the most important reason. I justify selection and arrangement. |
The main reasons why articles needed to be replaced with because of the fact that money trade was vague and not specific, the voting system accomplish nothing, and their legislative and inefficiencies. |
