Constitutional convention

A meeting called the Constitutional Convention was held in an attempt to fix the mistakes in the Articles but they ended up creating a new government instead. The Constitution separated the powers of the government between three branches-- the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. In order to make sure the powers between the branches are balanced, they use a system called checks and balances. In addition, balance is shown in the process by which a bill becomes a law; it relies on all three branches. The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia. It’s purpose was to have delegates propose ways to amend the Articles of Confederation. Edmund Randolph presented the Virginia Plan, which called for creating a new government that would consist of three branches. The convention took a vote and decided to write a new constitution instead of trying to improve the Articles. The problem with this plan, however, is that its legislature would have two houses, with the amount of delegates being divided among the states based on each of their free populations. This was unfair, as the larger states would have an advantage over the smaller…

The Constitutional Convention was a very special event that shaped American history, it all started with one bright idea. After the Articles of Confederation, James Madison and others noticed that the central government created by the Articles of Confederation was weak and ineffective. So many famous political attended a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation. The convention was held at the State House of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in May through September of 1787. They created a…

Four years after the Revolutionary War the Constitutional Convention starts. 55 state delegates meet in Philadelphia to fix the Articles of Confederation. After many hardships between the states the Constitution of the United States of America is born. I think the Constitutional Convention is the most significant event because it gave us our freedom. At Constitutional Convention there were a lot of compromises. One was between the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan. The Virginia plan called…

five states attended the Annapolis Convention in order to discuss trade issues between states. The Constitutional Convention was called to revise the Articles of Confederation in the hopes of overhauling the national government. The main conflict at this convention was the concept of representation. The Virginia Plan proposed that there…

The unique democratic purpose of New York’s periodic constitutional convention referendum is to implement New Yorkers inalienable right to alter their constitution in cases where the interests of the legislature and people conflict. New York’s constitution allows the people to exercise this democratic purpose, a convention must be substantially independent of the legislative’s control. For example, New York’s constitution prohibits the legislative from directly limiting a convention’s agenda.…

Only delegates from Pennsylvania and Virginia were present at the Constitutional Convention which opened on May 14, 1787. At the Pennsylvania State House, now called Independence Hall, seventy delegates were appointed to the Constitutional Convention, but out of them seventy only fifty-five delegates attended. Thirty-nine delegates signed the Constitution. George Mason, Edmund Randolph, and Elbridge Gerry were three delegates who did not sign the Constitution because the Bill of Rights were not…

The History of the Constitutional Convention In 1787, Congress realized that states governing themselves would leave the nation powerless when faced with another war. The United States had adopted the Articles of Confederation a decade prior, but the system wasn’t working. Each state was able to govern itself, and they didn’t have to abide by any regulations set by the federal government. The United States has a federalist government, meaning that the citizens are held to the laws of the…

The Constitutional Convention After the United States won the revolutionary war, they continued to function under the Articles of Confederation for about four years. Under the Articles, the government had very little power over the states and was not able to solve many domestic or foreign problems. A change needed to happen, so Congress called upon all 13 states to send representatives to Philadelphia. Although Rhode Island refused to send delegates, the other 12 states sent fifty-five men in…

In this convention my role was being a representative for the small states. My role in my group was to evaluate the other groups ideas and tell my spokesperson who was Mathias my thoughts and he would discuss those topics. My fellow representatives and I were of the small states, I valued representation because we were worried about not getting equal representation compared to the larger states. We fared this because the larger states were proposing that representation should be based on the…

The Constitutional Convention was a mix of highly influential, and lesser so influential individuals. Less than a year after these individuals gathered in 1787 to suggest finite reforms to the Articles of Confederation a far more powerful national government would be replacing it (Paletz, Owen and Cook). The American Constitution and Bill of Rights established the foundations of American politics through initiating the first ten amendments which illustrate the civil liberties that human beings…