Benedictine Confederation

Loyalty "Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill The Greek word for loyalty is πίστη, which in simple terms means “faithful.” Loyalty in English means “the quality of being loyal to a person or thing.” Faith in Greek is πίστις and means belief, trust, confidence, and faithfulness. The two Greek words are very similar, but do not confuse them. As humans we look for loyalty in people, and though they may try – it is inevitable they will fail. When we place expectations on people…

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…

at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.”A similar “dark time” occurred after the revolutionary war. In 1787, a constitutional convention was held in order to mend the errors created by the articles of confederation. The new government was simply not strong enough to meet the needs of the nation. In order to fix these problems, the members of the Constitutional Convention needed to frame a strong government that supported the need of the new nation, yet…

In the summer of 1787 55 delegates from twelve of the thirteen original states met Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation, America’s first national because tyranny was becoming a big problem. The delegates knew they needed to design a constitution that was strong enough to hold the nation together with a strong central government but just as importantly a constitution that would guard against allowing any one person, or group of people, get too much…

of Confederation the states had most of the power and the national government had little to no say. The colonies formed a confederation of thirteen states. The Articles of Confederation reflected the principles and ideas of the Declaration Of Independence and rejected the British ways. The new federal government consisted of a Congress of delegates chosen by state legislature rather than voters. Not allowing the people to vote for their delegates is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation.…

he struggle between large and small states was that of the voting and representatives of their states. The large States would have more power because they had a bigger population would then in turn give them more influence in the voting and they'd have a bigger voice because they'd have more representatives. The small states had smaller population so they didn't have the influence in the government like the large states had. This scared them because they thought that they wouldn't have a voice…

Article Five of the Constitution dictates the process by which an amendment becomes part of the Constitution. First, an amendment may be proposed either by Congress with a two­thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or by a constitutional convention called for by two­thirds of the State legislatures. All 27 amendments that have been ratified were proposed through Congress. After being approved by Congress, three­fourths of the states must affirm the proposed…

How much freedom did the United States Constitution provide America? The Constitution really helped the United States get the freedom they had been hoping for. The United States had been waiting for this for a very long time for this to happen.. They just didn’t know how long it was going to be before they got their freedom. Americans really couldn’t do anything without asking permission to do it because they didn’t have any freedom at this time. Without freedom you really couldn’t do anything.…

John Adams was the second president of the United States of America. He was a very honest, independent man who wanted to keep his country safe and out of war. Adams had a major influence on our country, but most of it had already been begun by our first president, George Washington. Some of his immense accomplishments are signing the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts, and avoiding the unofficial Quasi War. Adams was born on October 30th, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts (Biography of John…

Intro: The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution, written by David O. Stewart, describes the grueling process of the ratification of the constitution and provides detailed analyses of the events that occurred during the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787. Stewart is an experienced author and lawyer. He wrote The Lincoln Deception, which examines the unknown facts about the John Wilkes Booth conspiracy. Stewart has written several books that explain his understanding…