Ratification

A treaty is considered a contract among nations, and there is several of them between the tribes of Native Americans and the US government. These treaties are a bond and an example of trust between American government and many individual American Indian nations. The importance of treaties is immeasurable, as they provide many rights, conditions and benefits for the tribes that agreed to work with the government, these documents also protect the Native American people from further exploitation. The relevance of treaties will always be high and mentioned frequently as they are the source of some the fundamental structure of politics and cultural development in different tribes. Some members of the government today would rather see away with the…

History is two-sided, which makes historians the lawyers of sociology. Each representative presents facts in order to persuade readers to believe their ideology. On June 21, 1788, the United States Constitution was ratified. This ratification would provide numerous points of debate for historians, for society was divided into two groups: the strict interpretationists and loose interpretationists. The division into two groups created two sides; therefore, ultimately creating a trivial subject…

They cited fears that without clearly establishing individual rights, the federal government could easily supersede its power and become a monarchy with the President wearing the crown. This faction established against the ratification, known as the Anti-Federalists, wrote many series of essays opposite the writings of the framer’s and their supporters, the Federalists. One of the most popular writings of the Anti-federalists was “Hon. Mr. Gerry 's Objections", written by the Massachusetts…

the government had suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus. This made the citizens angry because many of them could not pay their taxes and they were potentially subject to unlawful detainment. Without the writ of Habeas Corpus to protect them, many of the farmers in Massachusetts felt that they had little to no rights. The citizens were angry that the government had taken away too many of their rights in an attempt to preserve the social order, and many citizens revolted. This revolt, known as Shay…

In this article, Gary Remer (2000) explains the idea that during the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the speaking was done in more of an oratory way than in a conversational way. The government wanted the deliberation to be more conversational between the representatives from the states, making them believe they had a say in decisions. The ratification of the Constitution was more told, than making a decision inn a conversational method among the representatives. The…

In the summer of 1787, a plan was made to restructure the government of the United States. The plan was known as the Constitution. The United States Constitution is possibly the most important document written in the history of our country. The federalists supported the Constitution, while the anti-federalists did not. The anti-federalists felt that ratification of such a document would give too much power to a federal government while also failing to protect the individual rights of citizens.…

Rewards for Ratification Democracy is a complex idea in that it can be used to describe a form of government, a method of choosing a government, a way to judge the way a state exercises their political power, a political culture, or a term applied to a whole society. However, for this paper, democracy will not be viewed as an event or process but rather a journey, involving several transitional phases before it can reach maturity over a period of time. Democratizing states and established…

Despite the rise of feminism in the 1960’s ERA still didn’t have enough support. In 1972 ERA was passed in Congress and was sent to the states for its ratification. In the end ERA was three states short from being ratified. As opposition to it grew during its ratification period ERA lost momentum (Radek, 2006). Even in the 1980s after the ratification period ended more opposition increased. Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment It seems ridiculous for the U.S not to grant equal rights to…

The ratifications debates were conducted in New York within a period of seven days between June 21st and 28th of 1788. The debates were dominated by speeches from the Federalists and Anti-Federalists regarding the concerns and opinions about how the country should be governed as well as the contents of the Constitution. Among the notable Federalists were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and George Washington while the Anti-Federalists included Thomas Jefferson among other figures. Although the…

debate over the ratification of the U.S. Constitution took place by and large between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. Prominent Federalist figures included Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams while the prominent Anti-Federalist figures included Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, and John Adams. The Federalist supporters consisted of large farmers, merchants and artisans while the Anti-Federalist supporters consisted of small farmers, mainly…