In a short timespan of 239 years in which America has been independent we have become one of the most leading superpowers. Though there are many other characteristics that define America aside from being influential, perhaps one of the most seductive of them all would have to be opportunity. “The American Dream”, a chance to reinvent oneself, a chance at “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. This quote was taken from the very foundation of The United States, The Declaration of Independence. We are a country born from oppression and the only thing that fueled us was and still is opportunity. This American dream was never something knew. Ever since the discovery of the Americas, people from across the globe came to either escape the tough
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This constitution linked the thirteen independent states “For joint action in dealing with common problems, such as foreign affairs. A clumsy congress was to be the chief agency of government. There was no executive branch -George III (British king at the time) had left a bad taste- and the vital judicial arm was left almost exclusively to the states” (kennedy 164). Now let 's step back for a moment to understand the reasoning behind this. The Articles of Confederation was made with the intention to have a weak central government. Reason being is that America had just broke free of an oppressive ruler so they weren’t looking for someone to boss them around. Therefore instead of the power given to the central/national government, like Britain, they let the power reside within the states, or better known as the Thirteen colonies. However as a result they national government couldn’t regulate commerce, and this loophole left the states free to establish different and often conflicting laws. Nor could they raise a national army because of the previous wounds king George III had left, and worst of all levy taxes. The colonies were already in massive amounts of debt due to the war and damages caused by it. “The central authority -a “government be supplication””- was lucky if in any year it received one-fourth of its requests.”; and if that wasn’t …show more content…
Constitution. They clearly outlined the general powers that were to be exercised by the central government, such as making treaties and establishing a postal service. As the first written constitution of the Republic, the Articles kept alive the flickering ideal of union and held the states together until such time as they were ripe for the establishment of a strong constitution by peaceful, evolutionary methods. Without this intermediary jump, the states probably would never have consented to the breathtaking leap from the old boycott Association of 1774 (when the colonists boycotted trade with the british one of the first major formal actions taken against Britain ) to the Constitution of the United States (Kennedy
This constitution linked the thirteen independent states “For joint action in dealing with common problems, such as foreign affairs. A clumsy congress was to be the chief agency of government. There was no executive branch -George III (British king at the time) had left a bad taste- and the vital judicial arm was left almost exclusively to the states” (kennedy 164). Now let 's step back for a moment to understand the reasoning behind this. The Articles of Confederation was made with the intention to have a weak central government. Reason being is that America had just broke free of an oppressive ruler so they weren’t looking for someone to boss them around. Therefore instead of the power given to the central/national government, like Britain, they let the power reside within the states, or better known as the Thirteen colonies. However as a result they national government couldn’t regulate commerce, and this loophole left the states free to establish different and often conflicting laws. Nor could they raise a national army because of the previous wounds king George III had left, and worst of all levy taxes. The colonies were already in massive amounts of debt due to the war and damages caused by it. “The central authority -a “government be supplication””- was lucky if in any year it received one-fourth of its requests.”; and if that wasn’t …show more content…
Constitution. They clearly outlined the general powers that were to be exercised by the central government, such as making treaties and establishing a postal service. As the first written constitution of the Republic, the Articles kept alive the flickering ideal of union and held the states together until such time as they were ripe for the establishment of a strong constitution by peaceful, evolutionary methods. Without this intermediary jump, the states probably would never have consented to the breathtaking leap from the old boycott Association of 1774 (when the colonists boycotted trade with the british one of the first major formal actions taken against Britain ) to the Constitution of the United States (Kennedy