Congress of the Confederation

government branches including the legislative, executive and judicial. The New Jersey plan, had small states that were not interested in developing a national government. The New Jersey plan insisted on creating an article of confederation. In relation to the house of Congress, it is evident that in the New Jersey plan there existed only one house while the Virginia plan proposed to have two houses. The houses highlighted in the Virginia plan were the House of Representatives and the Senate.…

conflicted on multiple levels between the two groups. Originally, the first draft for a constitution was established by the Articles of Confederation in 1778 (Kramnick, pg155). Those who supported this document were the Anti-Federalists. Patrick Henry, George Mason, and Richard Henry Lee were key member behind promoting the ideals presented in the Articles of Confederation. These men wrote and published literature to advocate for the Antifederalist perspective.…

Before the Civil War the United States (U.S.) experienced a time period that was highlighted by increased sectionalism called the antebellum period. The antebellum time period was from 1819 to 1860 and economic, political, and social issues started to divide the various regions of the U.S. This sectionalism, or loyalty towards a particular region, started to develop between the North and South over the practice of slavery. Also during this time period the U.S. was expanding westward and the…

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was an inventor from the 1700’s. He was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. As a child, Benjamin wanted to be a sailor, but because his brother became a sailor and was lost at sea, his dad would not allow him to sail. Franklin went to grammar school at the age of eight, but at the age of ten he left school and went to work with his father in his candle shop because he loved to read and was bad at math. After he was taken out of school, the…

Isabelle Verbitskiy The Articles of confederation, it failed when they thought it would work, they had consequences that they didn’t think about having. Sadly, there were no taxes which lead to no money. (Claim #2, society), the government had no money to collect taxes, there was Shay’s Rebellion, and they tried to take land Rebellion. Power of control and fear can overcome a person. There was the change to the constitution out of fear that the articles of confederation were not strong enough. …

Trials of the American Revolution The trials of the American Revolution that lasted approximately 28 years from 1763 to 1791 carried America into the modern world well before and after the years of war. Many key events, some fatal for countless Americans led to the peace and prosperity of the nation. Not without struggle, death, money, famine, suspicion and many other reasons. The importance of the revolution goes well beyond the events that took place, but the colonist fears and suspicions…

being overrepresented in the House of Representatives, but it made the Southern delegates nervous. They feared that giving Congress power over commerce would create disproportionate taxation on slaves or lead to the omission of them altogether. They were also afraid of navigation acts, which led to them asking for navigation and commercial laws to need a two-thirds vote in Congress to pass. There was a compromise reached by a committee who was handed the responsibility of making a decision…

After realizing how flawed the Articles of Confederation were, the Founding Fathers got together in Philadelphia to improve the document, but instead they scraped it and created an entirely new document known as the Constitution. In it, they included the separation of powers and checks and balances. The system of checks and balances is one of the most significant part of the Constitution since it maintains the balance of power between the different branches of government, while also protecting…

The founding fathers originally came together in 1787 to amend the Articles of Confederation, but instead rewrote the entire constitution. They defined the responsibilities of each branch of the federal government, and assumed that Congress would fill in any holes within the constitution as they arose by proposing amendments (Lessig, 2014). According to Thomas Jefferson, “No society can make a perpetual constitution” (Lessig, 2014). However, in the 228 years of the Constitution’s existence…

The Declaration of Independence and the U.S Constitution are two very important documents that help shaped the American Revolution. The American Revolution is defined as “The war between the American colonies and Great Britain between (1775 through 1783), leading to the formation of the independent United States”. These were epic days that many people took action and try to make changes around no matter if you were poor or rich. The declaration of independence and the Constitution handled the…