When wealthy people tend to do important things, is it because they are doing it for themselves or for the greater good? Well, some believe the founding fathers rewrote the Articles of Confederation simply because it was "not working". Or maybe rewriting it was to benefit the wealthy. Is it "We the People", or is it " We the Wealthy"? The Constitution is counter-revolutionary I presume. According to Dictionary.com: "A counterrevolution is a person who advocates or engages in a revolution that opposes a previous one or reverses its results.".
The founding fathers moved in silence. The government, operating in secrecy, had a monopoly on truth. Only two states met, nobody questioned why the other eleven states had no delegates They knew what …show more content…
I think of it as just a written law that limits its flexibility to adapt/change. Before the United States had the Constitution, it had the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution is a revision of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was the first written Constitution of the United States. Congress felt a need for a stronger union and government powerful enough to defeat Great Britain.
The Articles of Confederation was formed before the end of the Revolutionary War and was, therefore, a makeshift form of a central government that limited powers of the States. It had no ability to enforce any legislation over the states and was ergo considered too weak to hold a union together. According to The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica: Shays Rebellion, "Shay's Rebellion is an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions." Shays Rebellion exposed a weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation to call for strengthening the …show more content…
Lack of power given to the continental congress, the articles gave Congress the power to pass laws but no power to actually enforce them. Congress had trouble passing these laws because a vote of nine out of thirteen states was needed. The problem with needing all state approval for change was nearly impossible to make changed, one state could stop a change from happening that the other states wanted. Congress also lacked the power to collect taxes. Congress did not have the power to tax citizens, they could only request money from the
The founding fathers moved in silence. The government, operating in secrecy, had a monopoly on truth. Only two states met, nobody questioned why the other eleven states had no delegates They knew what …show more content…
I think of it as just a written law that limits its flexibility to adapt/change. Before the United States had the Constitution, it had the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution is a revision of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was the first written Constitution of the United States. Congress felt a need for a stronger union and government powerful enough to defeat Great Britain.
The Articles of Confederation was formed before the end of the Revolutionary War and was, therefore, a makeshift form of a central government that limited powers of the States. It had no ability to enforce any legislation over the states and was ergo considered too weak to hold a union together. According to The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica: Shays Rebellion, "Shay's Rebellion is an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions." Shays Rebellion exposed a weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation to call for strengthening the …show more content…
Lack of power given to the continental congress, the articles gave Congress the power to pass laws but no power to actually enforce them. Congress had trouble passing these laws because a vote of nine out of thirteen states was needed. The problem with needing all state approval for change was nearly impossible to make changed, one state could stop a change from happening that the other states wanted. Congress also lacked the power to collect taxes. Congress did not have the power to tax citizens, they could only request money from the