The Articles of Confederation. Drafted during the Revolutionary War during the fledgling years of this country. The newly independent people were wary of the power of the centralized authority they had just fled. The Articles of Confederation reflected a decision to reject the absurd notion the government should ever be more powerful than its states. The idea that a larger government should exist by consensus of the smaller members is admirable. The plan was that all of the states would unite against any common enemy. However interstate conflicts meant that they needed a strong central authority to react and arbitrate. an example was when john adams called for all american ports to close to british shipping, to pressure british merchants. each State acted on their own against the merchants to little effect.
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When the other american states closed their ports to British shipping, Connecticut wasted no time to profit by opening its ports The Confederation could not supply the unified front that john adams needed. And thus were the flaws in the articles revealed, and The Constitutional Convention was called to meet in Philadelphia in 1787 to resolve the issues the the original articles of confederation presented. The Articles of Confederation they looked at it and that this won 't work. It was clear to everybody involved that the articles were just not cutting it anymore. This statement marked the decision that resulted in the current constitution. The Continental Congress plotted the current government that we have today. Out of the restructuring many agreements were made in order to pass this new constitution. One of them was the request that a declaration of rights for every man in the United States be added to the constitution. That is why the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution, to secure those rights for American citizens. It laid some very important groundwork. Certain core principles of the United States that exist to secure our freedom come directly from this bill. The first second 4th 5th and 6th amendments, which exist to ensure fairness of laws and protections from government date from this period. However, they were twisted aside it took a radical approach to lawmaking to come up with a law that could secure those rights for all Americans. The 14th amendment plugged the hole left by earlier amendments. It gave lawmakers no excuse to look in the other direction to avoid hard topics and I believe that the 14th amendment is one of the single most land breaking law ever created by these United States. 8 states in clear unalloyed terms that this United States is a nation that should have liberty and justice for all (Opposing viewpoint part up here) The 14th amendment is groundbreaking because it states in no uncertain terms that ALL people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens. Before this time, citizenship was far less even handed, and it was easy to cut off people 's rights. By contrast, it is incredibly hard to remove the rights from fellow citizens of a country (but not impossible just look at “”separate but equal””) it took an incredible amount of backwards and upside down thinking to subvert the 14th amendment, but it was possible. (Quote here about suitable and vigorous) however the first clause explicitly states that all citizens are granted equal protection under the law and that clause had been used again and again to strike down unfair and unjust laws. The Supreme Court. Supreme Court is the United States way of ensuring that the other two branches the US government adhere to the Constitution the Supreme Court 's power is incredibly unlike the other two branches. The Supreme Court cannot make laws and it cannot enforce laws but it can decide if you can enforce laws based on the Constitution of the United States.They also have the ability to throw out laws that are not in accordance with the wishes of the Constitution of the United States of America. You can think of them as a force of destruction not creation. The 14th amendment having been introduced to the constitution after the Civil War and during
When the other american states closed their ports to British shipping, Connecticut wasted no time to profit by opening its ports The Confederation could not supply the unified front that john adams needed. And thus were the flaws in the articles revealed, and The Constitutional Convention was called to meet in Philadelphia in 1787 to resolve the issues the the original articles of confederation presented. The Articles of Confederation they looked at it and that this won 't work. It was clear to everybody involved that the articles were just not cutting it anymore. This statement marked the decision that resulted in the current constitution. The Continental Congress plotted the current government that we have today. Out of the restructuring many agreements were made in order to pass this new constitution. One of them was the request that a declaration of rights for every man in the United States be added to the constitution. That is why the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution, to secure those rights for American citizens. It laid some very important groundwork. Certain core principles of the United States that exist to secure our freedom come directly from this bill. The first second 4th 5th and 6th amendments, which exist to ensure fairness of laws and protections from government date from this period. However, they were twisted aside it took a radical approach to lawmaking to come up with a law that could secure those rights for all Americans. The 14th amendment plugged the hole left by earlier amendments. It gave lawmakers no excuse to look in the other direction to avoid hard topics and I believe that the 14th amendment is one of the single most land breaking law ever created by these United States. 8 states in clear unalloyed terms that this United States is a nation that should have liberty and justice for all (Opposing viewpoint part up here) The 14th amendment is groundbreaking because it states in no uncertain terms that ALL people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens. Before this time, citizenship was far less even handed, and it was easy to cut off people 's rights. By contrast, it is incredibly hard to remove the rights from fellow citizens of a country (but not impossible just look at “”separate but equal””) it took an incredible amount of backwards and upside down thinking to subvert the 14th amendment, but it was possible. (Quote here about suitable and vigorous) however the first clause explicitly states that all citizens are granted equal protection under the law and that clause had been used again and again to strike down unfair and unjust laws. The Supreme Court. Supreme Court is the United States way of ensuring that the other two branches the US government adhere to the Constitution the Supreme Court 's power is incredibly unlike the other two branches. The Supreme Court cannot make laws and it cannot enforce laws but it can decide if you can enforce laws based on the Constitution of the United States.They also have the ability to throw out laws that are not in accordance with the wishes of the Constitution of the United States of America. You can think of them as a force of destruction not creation. The 14th amendment having been introduced to the constitution after the Civil War and during