After the Revolution, Americans were faced with the incredibly difficult task of formulating a plan that would lay out the laws of government for the new nation. First, there were the Articles of Confederation, but they later proved to be unsuccessful in effectively governing the nation. Thus, there was a need for a new plan. In 1787, delegates gathered at the Constitutional Convention in order to create a new plan for government. Throughout the convention, a number of compromises were made in order to appease the fears of different groups. These compromises were necessary in order to ratify the Constitution and to create a successful plan of government that would stand the test of time. One major compromise made at the Constitutional Convention
The Founding fathers did not want to create a government with too much power so they created the Articles of Confederation. This government turned out to be a failure. In 1787, the founding fathers met again to create a new framework of government. Most people feared creating a government that was too strong. To create a new government there had to be many compromises, the U.S. Constitution is the result of these compromises reached in Philadelphia in 1787. The Articles of Confederation were too weak and created many problems which led to a stronger National government. Two weaknesses of the Articles of confederation were that Congress did not have the power to tax. Another problem was that the states had most of the power and the National Government had little power. Two decisions made by the
The original governing document of the United States was the Articles of Confederation. In 1777 during the revolutionary war the continental congress was adopted, and was written before the United States was officially a country. This plan laid out a very weak and under looked national government and a very strong state government. In the end the government could not tax, could not enforce the laws it passed, and could not regulate any of the commerce. All these things and other weaknesses, along with, the great compromise, three-fifths compromise, commerce compromise, slave trade compromise
The Constitutional Convention was held in May 25 1787 in Philadelphia to discuss revising the Article of Confederation. Delegates from the various states met in Philadelphia and George Washington president was elected to preside over Convention. However, the result of convention wasn’t likely what the purpose of convention to revise the Article of Confederation because what it ended up doing could not answer successfully the question of slavery and was creating a new constitution, which was the United States Constitution. There were three plans submitted for government structure which were Virginia, New Jersey, and Connecticut Compromise.
In the book “A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution” by Carol Berkin she explains the constitution from start to finish from how it all began, to the debates inside the convention and finally the end product. Berkin takes the reader and puts him directly in the middle of the convention of 1786; throughout the book you can feel the excitement, the frustration, the tensions between delegates and the overall commitment to making a new government work for all.
Driven by Shay's Rebellion, many delegates realized that the Articles of Confederation were not strong enough to keep the population under control. This resulted in the Philadelphia Convention, also known as the Constitutional Convention, and its attendees to propose various plans and ideas with the original intention of strengthening the government. During discussions, the motive changed to developing a whole new government and discarding of the Articles of Confederation. The two plans that emerged from the convention were the "Virginia Plan," which was the more popular plan, and the "New Jersey Plan." The Virginia Plan was drafted before the meeting and came first, inspiring the New Jersey Plan. These two plans, with their similarities and differences, lead to significant milestones in what has shaped today's government.
Lastly, I believe that these compromises made the Union much stronger and much more organized because all the delegates could agree on something rather than each state doing something different. If some states allowed the slave trade and the neighboring state had banned it, it could be very confusing and chaotic. Another example is that if the delegates hadn’t agreed on the three fifths compromise, then the Southern states would be doing the opposite of the northern states and the Union wouldn’t be as stable. These are the many compromises that the delegates had to agree on during the constitutional convention.
After the Colonies defeated Great Britain in the Revolutionary war, the Americans needed to construct their own government. They then created a system that was completely different from King George’s rule. It was based on a document called the Articles of Confederation. At first, the Americans were delighted with it. However, the Founding Fathers who created it realized it had many problems, so they came together to revise them at the Constitutional Convention, which happens to be where our modern constitution comes from.
How did the Enlightenment and American Revolution change the way people viewed their relationship to their rulers?
When the Framers of the Constitution met in Philadelphia, they came together with one common purpose in mind. They needed to form a fair and solid system of government that would stand the test of time; one that was both fair for the people and would not involve a monarchy. Each of these men had their own ideas on what would constitute this system, however, so many compromises had to be made. Together, the men gathered in Philadelphia created a federal system of government and drafted a constitution outlining this government. They took care in developing three branches of federal government with a system of checks and balances so that no one branch would gain too much power, thus avoiding any
Developing a country and its principals comes with many debates, arguments, and many decisions to be made. In the end of the eighteenth century the Founding Fathers of the newly established America dealt with the difficulties of creating a country with strong political, social, and economic power. With the writing of the Articles of Confederation the country had now developed a national government, but was weak and ineffective. The top leaders of the country knew the flaws of the Articles and gathered together to rewrite the draft. When these decisions makers met in Philadelphia for the Convention the Constitution of the United States was written. This Constitution developed the foundation of the American governmental system. Along with
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the subsequent ratification of the constitution proved to be a more significant event in American political history than the Declaration of Independence. Many of the american leaders believed we needed to a new, stronger government. They had to persuade the states that stronger government was the right direction to ensure the country’s success.They did that with the constitutional convention but, To sway the states in the right direction documents such as the Federalist papers led the states to ratify the new U.S. Constitution. Which then led to the U.S. Constitution that we still live by to the day.
The Constitution Convention was made, some of compromise which was balancing power between the federal government and state government in 1787. Because of some issues was emerging at a constitution convention like lager and small states those the key compromises helped to create a perfect constitution of the united states.
The last half of the 18th century was very important for the United States. During this era, the nation was founded following the Declaration of Independence and drafting and ratification of the Constitution a decade later. The 1787 constitutional convention and ratification debate was very important in the making of the US Constitution. The dynamics, antagonism, considerations, process and the eventual consensus regarding the Constitution can be explained by discrete theories in political discourses. However, there are theories that fit best within this historical context and help better explain the process of the constitutional convention and ratification. This paper will talk about pluralist theory as a theoretical perspective that best explains the workings of the 1787 constitutional convention and ratification debate, as opposed to power elite theory. This will be achieved by looking at the premises of pluralist theoretical perspective, and the workings of the 1787 constitutional convention and ratification and then show how pluralist theory best captures the workings.
On May 25, 1787, fifty-five delegates from twelve states met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. Instead, they decided to totally scrap the Articles and create a new Constitution, known as "a bundle of compromises." Whatever these leaders ' personal desires, they had to compromise and adopt what was acceptable to the entirety of America, and what presumably would be suitable to the nation as a whole. There were many compromises made at the Constitutional Convention, such as representation, slavery, and laws concerning foreign/ interstate imports and exports.
By the late eighteenth century, America found itself independent from England; which was a welcomed change, but also brought with it, its own set of challenges. The newly formed National Government was acting under the Articles of Confederation, which established a “firm league of friendship” between the states, but did not give adequate power to run the country. To ensure the young nation could continue independently, Congress called for a Federal Convention to convene in Philadelphia to address the deficiencies in the Articles of Confederation. While the Congress only authorized the convention to revise and amend the Articles the delegates quickly set out to develop a whole new Constitution for the country. Unlike the Articles of