The New Constitution
By the year 1786 our nation became aware that the current constitution, the Articles of Confederation needed to be changed or our country was going to fail. The Articles gave Congress virtually no power to regulate domestic affairs--no power to tax, no power to regulate commerce. Congress had to depend on financial contributions from the states, and they often time turned down requests. In 1786, the United States was bankrupt (The Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Pennsylvania). The debate lasted one hundred days and took place from May 14, 1787 to September 17, 1787. This demonstrates the pragmatic nature of our political culture because these men knew that they could not leave until our country's issues were all resolved. The Constitutional Congress met in order to decide what changes needed to be made to the existing Articles of Confederation. But men like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton wanted to create a new …show more content…
The first example of limited government in the constitution is the first amendment, Freedom of speech (Limited Government). This means that we as citizens are free to say what we what, be which ever religion we want, announce what we want, and most importantly stand up for what we want. This means that if the government makes a decision that we do not like we, as a nation, have a right to petition that choice which helps keep the power within the people (First Amendment). In the Articles of Confederation they had decided on state-by-state voting and left most of the decision making and power in the hands of the individual states. When all of the power was held by the states the bigger states became to powerful and overthrew the smaller states. This is the reason that limited government was added into the new constitution. The founding fathers basically centered the new constitution on the issue of limited government (Articles of Confederation,
By the year 1786 our nation became aware that the current constitution, the Articles of Confederation needed to be changed or our country was going to fail. The Articles gave Congress virtually no power to regulate domestic affairs--no power to tax, no power to regulate commerce. Congress had to depend on financial contributions from the states, and they often time turned down requests. In 1786, the United States was bankrupt (The Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Pennsylvania). The debate lasted one hundred days and took place from May 14, 1787 to September 17, 1787. This demonstrates the pragmatic nature of our political culture because these men knew that they could not leave until our country's issues were all resolved. The Constitutional Congress met in order to decide what changes needed to be made to the existing Articles of Confederation. But men like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton wanted to create a new …show more content…
The first example of limited government in the constitution is the first amendment, Freedom of speech (Limited Government). This means that we as citizens are free to say what we what, be which ever religion we want, announce what we want, and most importantly stand up for what we want. This means that if the government makes a decision that we do not like we, as a nation, have a right to petition that choice which helps keep the power within the people (First Amendment). In the Articles of Confederation they had decided on state-by-state voting and left most of the decision making and power in the hands of the individual states. When all of the power was held by the states the bigger states became to powerful and overthrew the smaller states. This is the reason that limited government was added into the new constitution. The founding fathers basically centered the new constitution on the issue of limited government (Articles of Confederation,