#1: What were the most important steps that Washington took to establish the authority and prestige of the new federal government under the Constitution?(EMILY) Challenges – Population Growth | Demographics
The population was rapidly growing due to the recent victory of the revolution and many people from Britain fled to the United States (approximately ⅓ of Britain's population). This population changes held many tensions between the different regions and between the political parties. The south was predominantly democratic-republicans and the north was mainly federalists. These political divisions threatened to split the country because each party wanted personal success, however, this tension was kept at bay by Washington who acted as …show more content…
The Bill of Rights is the collective succession of ten amendments assuring legally-protected, basic, absolute, and unalterable human rights for all American citizens, which, it claims, are intrinsic qualities of a man and without which the human spirit would be restrained and democracy would not flourish. It established concise, strict restrictions on the authority of congress and stated that all authorities with which congress has not been specifically endowed are to be reserved for states and individuals to quell the anti federalists’ fears that any ambiguity regarding the issue of human rights would inevitably lead to encroachment on basic freedoms resembling the despotism of the English Crown. Failure to address these pervasive and powerful concerns may have thwarted attempts to ratify the new …show more content…
Anti Federalists protested that the Supreme Court was an instrument of tyranny and that the Bill of Rights substantially established just judicial proceedings. The act deemed that one Supreme Justice would preside over five Associate Justices. Thirteen Judicial Districts were created within the eleven states that had ratified the constitution, each with a circuit court and district court. The lower yet more extensive district courts were made to manage trials regarding general questions of federal law while circuit courts managed appeals on trials that had already been established. All people were given the right to represent themselves or be represented in court. Interstate disputes were to be resolved in a federal court. The office of Attorney General was created to represent the United States before the Supreme Court, as well as a United States Attorney and a United States Marshal for each judicial district. The act ultimately established that federal judicial law is superior to the power of the states and affirmed the precedent of judicial review in the famous case of Marbury v.
The population was rapidly growing due to the recent victory of the revolution and many people from Britain fled to the United States (approximately ⅓ of Britain's population). This population changes held many tensions between the different regions and between the political parties. The south was predominantly democratic-republicans and the north was mainly federalists. These political divisions threatened to split the country because each party wanted personal success, however, this tension was kept at bay by Washington who acted as …show more content…
The Bill of Rights is the collective succession of ten amendments assuring legally-protected, basic, absolute, and unalterable human rights for all American citizens, which, it claims, are intrinsic qualities of a man and without which the human spirit would be restrained and democracy would not flourish. It established concise, strict restrictions on the authority of congress and stated that all authorities with which congress has not been specifically endowed are to be reserved for states and individuals to quell the anti federalists’ fears that any ambiguity regarding the issue of human rights would inevitably lead to encroachment on basic freedoms resembling the despotism of the English Crown. Failure to address these pervasive and powerful concerns may have thwarted attempts to ratify the new …show more content…
Anti Federalists protested that the Supreme Court was an instrument of tyranny and that the Bill of Rights substantially established just judicial proceedings. The act deemed that one Supreme Justice would preside over five Associate Justices. Thirteen Judicial Districts were created within the eleven states that had ratified the constitution, each with a circuit court and district court. The lower yet more extensive district courts were made to manage trials regarding general questions of federal law while circuit courts managed appeals on trials that had already been established. All people were given the right to represent themselves or be represented in court. Interstate disputes were to be resolved in a federal court. The office of Attorney General was created to represent the United States before the Supreme Court, as well as a United States Attorney and a United States Marshal for each judicial district. The act ultimately established that federal judicial law is superior to the power of the states and affirmed the precedent of judicial review in the famous case of Marbury v.