Articles Of Confederation vs. Constitution
Before the Constitution of the United States was incorporated as the Supreme Law of the Land, the Founding Fathers drafted the “Articles of Confederation”, which can be deemed as a “mini constitution” which contained many flaws and inaccuracies which the Fathers attempted to rectify and improve upon.
Initially, the U.S. was not actually united in the legal sense – rather, they were a loose confederation of states (hence the Articles of Confederation) independent of national authority and supremacy. For example, the States coined their own money, taxed their own citizens, controlled their own trade and commerce – and there was no President who would oversee the States to execute the law. With these few examples demonstrating the fallacies of the Aricles, we have already grasped a few problems. Firstly, how are the States capable of conducting trade and business with each other if they individually coin different currencies? Without a President, who would execute the law? Who would regulate trade among the states (interstate commerce)?
Basically, Congress was bereft of any governmental power, and …show more content…
Hagan, professor at the University of Oklahoma, author of the work “American Indians” , a book about the history of Native Americans, observes the reasons for this type of hatred towards the Indians. With the Americans’ first encounter with the Indians, they already got a glimpse into their “antiquated” religion and way of life. A civilized white man visiting them was repulsed by the hideous rituals which they practiced; it only created a type of antipathy of them that made coexistence between whites and Native Americans nearly impossible. Either, as we have said above, the Indians would voluntarily submit to white authority or they would perforce be removed from their lands, relocating elsewhere, and going through an extensive “reeducation” of what it meant to live in a moral and civil
Before the Constitution of the United States was incorporated as the Supreme Law of the Land, the Founding Fathers drafted the “Articles of Confederation”, which can be deemed as a “mini constitution” which contained many flaws and inaccuracies which the Fathers attempted to rectify and improve upon.
Initially, the U.S. was not actually united in the legal sense – rather, they were a loose confederation of states (hence the Articles of Confederation) independent of national authority and supremacy. For example, the States coined their own money, taxed their own citizens, controlled their own trade and commerce – and there was no President who would oversee the States to execute the law. With these few examples demonstrating the fallacies of the Aricles, we have already grasped a few problems. Firstly, how are the States capable of conducting trade and business with each other if they individually coin different currencies? Without a President, who would execute the law? Who would regulate trade among the states (interstate commerce)?
Basically, Congress was bereft of any governmental power, and …show more content…
Hagan, professor at the University of Oklahoma, author of the work “American Indians” , a book about the history of Native Americans, observes the reasons for this type of hatred towards the Indians. With the Americans’ first encounter with the Indians, they already got a glimpse into their “antiquated” religion and way of life. A civilized white man visiting them was repulsed by the hideous rituals which they practiced; it only created a type of antipathy of them that made coexistence between whites and Native Americans nearly impossible. Either, as we have said above, the Indians would voluntarily submit to white authority or they would perforce be removed from their lands, relocating elsewhere, and going through an extensive “reeducation” of what it meant to live in a moral and civil