Article One of the United States Constitution

There are three branches of the United States government which shape and control society in our day to day lives. These three branches are known as the separation of powers which is “the division of government power across the judicial, executive, and legislative branches” (Bianco 7). The two main branches this paper will focus on are the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, specifically the President and Congress. The President and Congress function on the Madisonian…

Confederation and Constitution After fighting the British in the Revolutionary War, our new independent nation faced some difficult and challenging times economically. This critical time was a danger to colonists and the new future of the delicate republic. Independence had been declared and the recent state and national governments needed to make some very difficult decisions about how to stabilize the suffering economy (Ushistory.org, 2016). Articles of Confederation vs Constitution on…

The Seven Articles of the United States Constitution guarantees the protection of our rights. They granted all national powers to the congress; however, it allowed each state to retain its sovereignty, freedom, and independence. The Three Branches of government protect our society from single unlimited power and leave the nation in safe position. The most imperative aspect of our government is the separation of power. This concept is extraordinarily introduced in the first three articles of the…

Though, the Articles of Confederation was America’s first constitution it lacked the stability that Americans wanted. As it did not favor a central government but instead a more decentralized government among the states. Which in the founders’ eyes kept down on possible corruption among higher officials. However, true corruption decreased but fairness and equality among the people also decreased along with it. As the power over decision-making was taken away from their hands and only placed in…

creation of a new constitution, a new government during those four months between May and September of 1787 truly produced a miracle. Miracle at Philadelphia, written by Catherine Drinker Bowen, narrates the events at the Constitutional Convention. Alexander Hamilton was an essential character that played a pivotal role in the creation/ramification of the constitution and the formation of the convention. Without Hamilton’s drive to make the convention possible, the United States wouldn’t be…

The Constitution established a strong central government that reflected upon history and was open to change during times of urgency. It worked upon the failures of the Articles of Confederation, which displayed a weak central government and depended upon the states. The Constitution had strong central government, coming from its articles which points out parts of government and their equally distributed powers. Flexibility of change was established through amendments, but in a way that the…

The United States constitution was signed and approved by the constitutional convention delegates in 1787, and it needed ratification from nine states as it is required in article VII of the constitution before it could be enforced. States that decided not to ratify the constitution will be considered a different country, and not part of the union. With this knowledge, the urge of the ratification led to a conflict among the delegates that resulted in numerous documents, essays, pamphlets, and…

The United States Constitution is what our country is founded upon and (more or less) powered by. Like the article states, it is one of the oldest constitutions in the world yet also one of the shortest ones, meaning there is a lot of room for interpretation and misinterpretation especially over the course of 200+ years. While the constitution is based on the right to life, liberty, and property, amendments to it (some contradicting each other) have made the general guidelines a little foggy.…

governments, but now tyrannical ones. I am in strong opposition to the Constitution, specifically, Articles One and Two. In the proposed Constitution the government possesses absolute power. I believe that it gives Congress too much power, it takes power away from local governments, it gives the President (Executive Branch) too much power, and the representation needs to be changed, just to name a few. The central government under the Articles of Confederation was too weak, but the one that…

that Articles of Confederation was successful in the unification of the colonies after the commotion of the American Revolution. Although the AOC was a huge step to the becoming of this nation, it wasn’t sufficient enough to run the newly-independent country. In force, the constitutional Convection didn’t just revise the Articles, but also wrote the Constitution which was drastically and extremely different from the Articles. On November 15th 1777, the founding fathers adopted the Articles of…