The Us Constitution A Graphic Adaptation Analysis

The Importance of the Constitution The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation written by Jonathan Hennessey and illustrated by Aaron McConnell describes the events and documents leading up to the Constitution of the United States. There was tension between many countries about the land on the continent of America. The English colonies wanted freedom to own the land without authority of the British king, but the king did not agree (Hennessey 8). After many fights, riots, uprisings, and disagreements, the colonies’ elite men came together as the Continental Congress, and Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence to declare freedom from Britain’s tyranny and misrepresentation (Hennessey 13). This sparked a war between …show more content…
They were very weak, and focused mainly on what the new states’ powers included (which were a little too many). The Articles of Confederation were built quickly to create some form of government. The states of the new-found country had been on their own for so long under their own government (Hennessey 20). With many ideas of a republic, the founding fathers (the same elites from the Continental Congress) met to draft a new government centralized around one main group of men. Out of the meeting, the United States Constitution was formed. The Constitution outlined a very centralized government based on three branches, and limited the states’ powers under the federal government (Hennessey 23). The Constitution, as described by Hennessey, came as a breath of fresh air for the governing men, but did not come …show more content…
The United States needed to pay for the war, and had no way to do so. Hennessey uses his book to show the rough patches leading up to the constitution, including the conflict that the Articles of Confederation brought about. On page 15, the states are described as “separate countries in a league of friendship” instead of a country. This describes to what extent the Articles of Confederation actually bound the states as one. The amount of control that the federal government had was lacking, and war restitution still needed to pay to the veterans. Not being able to force the states to pay taxes, the government was broke. The portrayal of Shays Rebellion (a rebellion of unpaid veterans who fought in the Revolutionary War) in the book shows how little control the government had (Hennessey 17). A new government needed to come about