The U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution is the “supreme law of the land” according to Article VI, created solely for the people and by the people. The constitution was created because many of the leaders and delegates felt extremely dissatisfied by the government under the Articles of Confederation that had created an incredibly weak central government, where the states were not united, but were instead loosely connected and were acting as independent countries. The Articles of Confederation was created where each state had one vote, no matter the population or size of the state and that in itself is unfair and unjust. The Articles of Confederation had many problems and all in all, was unfit for a nation that had a great future and people …show more content…
Constitution created a national government and its fundamentals laws that also guaranteed basic rights for its citizens, like the Bill of Rights. It is also a framework of government which allows for representative democracy. The government is structured where the power rests with the people, which is known as popular sovereignty, an idea adopted from Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It was also structured so that instead of the central government having just a legislative branch much like how the Articles of Confederation had its government, it would have three branches: the executive branch, judicial branch, and included the legislative branch. Among these three branches, there would be a checks and balances (an idea adopted from Baron de Montesquieu’s Separation of Powers) so that neither branch had too much power or abused their …show more content…
This is why the U.S. Constitution was created. While the Articles of Confederation had it’s pros, as it did sign the Treaty of Paris of 1783 and the country dd survive on it, but it wasn’t good enough for the United States. The U.S. Constitution was able to generate a powerful central government that did indeed unite and bind all thirteen states together with the help of extremely influential and passionate people. The constitution deconstructed a loose nation from the Articles of Confederation and completely reassembled a new government- a federal government whose only definition can be “a strong central government that shares and divides powers with the lower governments but those lower governments must answer to the authority of the central government”. While there is an assured authority, the constitution is flexible enough in itself that there can be ratifications and amendments to it in order to appeal to the people. This new government of represented democracy, popular sovereignty, and the separation of powers is what will lead the the United States into the
The U.S. Constitution is the “supreme law of the land” according to Article VI, created solely for the people and by the people. The constitution was created because many of the leaders and delegates felt extremely dissatisfied by the government under the Articles of Confederation that had created an incredibly weak central government, where the states were not united, but were instead loosely connected and were acting as independent countries. The Articles of Confederation was created where each state had one vote, no matter the population or size of the state and that in itself is unfair and unjust. The Articles of Confederation had many problems and all in all, was unfit for a nation that had a great future and people …show more content…
Constitution created a national government and its fundamentals laws that also guaranteed basic rights for its citizens, like the Bill of Rights. It is also a framework of government which allows for representative democracy. The government is structured where the power rests with the people, which is known as popular sovereignty, an idea adopted from Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It was also structured so that instead of the central government having just a legislative branch much like how the Articles of Confederation had its government, it would have three branches: the executive branch, judicial branch, and included the legislative branch. Among these three branches, there would be a checks and balances (an idea adopted from Baron de Montesquieu’s Separation of Powers) so that neither branch had too much power or abused their …show more content…
This is why the U.S. Constitution was created. While the Articles of Confederation had it’s pros, as it did sign the Treaty of Paris of 1783 and the country dd survive on it, but it wasn’t good enough for the United States. The U.S. Constitution was able to generate a powerful central government that did indeed unite and bind all thirteen states together with the help of extremely influential and passionate people. The constitution deconstructed a loose nation from the Articles of Confederation and completely reassembled a new government- a federal government whose only definition can be “a strong central government that shares and divides powers with the lower governments but those lower governments must answer to the authority of the central government”. While there is an assured authority, the constitution is flexible enough in itself that there can be ratifications and amendments to it in order to appeal to the people. This new government of represented democracy, popular sovereignty, and the separation of powers is what will lead the the United States into the