How Did The Constitution Create A Just Government

The Constitution created a just government by fixing the many problems with the Articles of Confederation. In Alexander Hamilton’s letter to James Duane he stated that “the confederation itself is defective and requires to be altered; it is neither fit for war, nor peace”. One problem with the confederation was that too much power was given to the states. Alexander Hamilton wrote a letter to James Duane stating that the “Confederation too gives the power of the purse too entirely to the state legislatures”. With the states having too much power, the federal government was very weak and inefficient. It couldn’t enforce their laws and it caused a lack of a central leadership.In George Washingtons letter to James Warren he says “cannot be done by thirteen heads differently constructed and organized. The necessity, therefore of a controlling power is obvious”. I think Washington meant that we needed to unify the states and created a strong central government. The Constitution did just that by establishing a different federal government that was created by the states to serve the states. It was the states responsibility to enforce the Constitution to …show more content…
They created the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. Each branch had their own different responsibilities. For example the Legislative branch makes the laws and the Congress and the House of Representatives are a part of it. The Executive branch carries out the laws and the Judicial branch evaluates the laws. The President is a part of the Executive branch and in Article 3 Section 1 it states that “The executive power shall be vested in the United States of America. They also added a system called checks and balances that would keep the power in check. It guaranteed that no part of our government becomes too powerful. The people supported this system because it gets rid of the abuse of power and