A Brief Summary Of The Constitution

The first written Constitution of United States was the Article of Confederation written in 1777 and ratified by the states four years after. It was helpful for coordinating the War of Independence. After the War for Independence most Americans could feel the weakness of Confederation government because it wasn’t able to regulate and control as it was supposed to do; moreover, the Congress was lacking a secure source of revenue to support new economy. It was very week government, where Congress couldn’t collect taxes, no executive brunch or one national court system were exist, overall it was system lucking any national unity. With the Congress inability to act properly the states themselves started to take action to regulate on their own by imposing high taxes on farmers and other people making them going into debts and eventually all this lead to a famous Shay’s rebellion. …show more content…
Federalists supported the idea of one central government but Anti-Federalists opposed ratification. They argued that the republic had to be small and warned that the Constitution would result in a government of oppression. They were afraid that Constitution will not guarantee the rights of ordinary people. They pointed on the luck of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution which makes Americans unprotected of basic rights such us freedom of speech. In order for a final constitution to be proposed, a series of compromises were needed to be done. There were two main questions to address the representation question and the slavery