United States Vs. Virginia Constitution. In A Quick Observation,

Though the articles did account for a President, he did hardly more than preside over the Congress, there was no power in the Presidency. The Constitution on the other hand gave power to the executive branch headed by the President to choose the Cabinet and be another check to the judiciary and legislature. The Amending document was changed as well between the two, before 13 out of 13 colonies were needed to amend an article, while later 2/3 of both houses of Congress as well as ¾ of State legislature or National Convention were needed. The representation of the States was drastically changed, under the articles each State received one vote regardless of size, in the Constitution the upper house (Senate) has two votes from each state and the lower house would be based upon population.

On July 11, 1958 a couple of hours after midnight, Richard Loving a white man and Mildred Loving an African American woman were awakened to the presence of three officers in their bedroom. One of the three officers demanded from Richard to identify the woman next to him. Mildred, full of fear, told the officers that she was his wife, while Richard pointed to the marriage license on the wall. The couple was then charged and later found guilty in violation of the state's anti-miscegenation statute.

In the Articles of Confederation, the States are sovereign but in the Constitution the people as a whole nation are sovereign. Concluding that the sovereignty is divided among the states and the central government (Utah State University, 2008). Meaning that the federal government may have laws but the states have their autonomous decision in making laws too. This ratification does at times clash with one another but that issue is settled by the Supreme Court of the United States for resolution. In the Articles of Confederation, it was written that there is no independent executive with power but compared with the Constitution it was agreed that the “independent executive is chosen by the Electoral College” (Utah State University, 2008). The Executive Branch is headed by the President who has the power to choose his cabinet and has checks & balance on powers of the judiciary and the legislature. In the Articles of Confederation, there were no federal courts. All laws were enforced by the state courts but comparing this to the Constitution, there is a separate Federal Court System with the power to resolve issues among citizens and states. Another issue was that there was no taxing power given to Congress but later on Congress was granted the power to “lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises” (Heritage Foundation, 2012). Congress before would request that specific state to pay taxes but now Congress has the right

Additional points of contrast strongly suggest that the executive and legislative branches likewise show that there is a difference between the U.S. Constitution and the Nevada State Constitution. For example, in the executive branch, the sitting president has the ability to appoint individuals

If there were too many differences, then the branches of government would be very chaotic because a lack of structure between the state and federal government. In the United States Constitution and Nevada constitution it outlines three structures of the government. They are both setup in the same and is broken into three different parts, The Legislature Department, The Executive Department and The Judiciary Department. In addition, both constitutions are broken up into articles and each article explains a general topic, but most important they both state in the preamble “We the People...” (THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEVADA). This quote is significant because when the constitution is brought up, it is always the document of the people and the rights of the people. So it is important that no matter what, both constitutions had this quote within them. The United States Constitution and Nevada constitution don’t have significant differences because it reduces redundancy. The government for the citizens of Nevada is ran and structured the way they are today because of these two important

A constitution is a written document that sets forth the fundamental rules by which a society is governed. Throughout the course of history the United States has lived under two Constitutions since the British-American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776. First in line was the Articles of Confederation (1789-1789) followed by the Constitution of United States of America (1789-present). The Articles of Confederation was the first formal written Constitution of America that specified how the national government was to operate. Unfortunately, the Articles did not last long. Under the words of the Article’s power was limited; Congress could make decisions, but had no power to enforce them. Also the articles stated

Generally speaking, State constitutions perform different functions (generally limit plenary powers rather than grant enumerated powers), have different origins (from the people

Each constitution has its own laws and rules, constitutions have been around for years. Every government needs a constitution to survive, or it would be chaos. No one would have rules or laws to follow, which would be madness. Even though the Iroquois Constitution helped build the United States (U.S.) Constitution, it does not mean that they are identical. Both of these constitutions have some alikes and differences.

The United States constitution and the Russian constitution both share similarities in which they lay out the governmental structure such as: the Federal, Legislative and Judicial branches, however, the details and power that lies under each of the branches is much different between the two constitutions. Both constitutions also have differences that can be attributed to the time in which it was constructed as one was drafted by revolutionary figures during the 18th century while the other was drafted after the fall of the Soviet Union.

The Commonwealth of Virginia v. Allen (609 S.E.2d 4, Va. 2005) was a fascinating case. The case focused on two expert witness testifying for the state and the other for the defendant, and if they acted and behaved ethically during the proceedings. Successive information will be addressed to prove the thought process behind my opinion given in this case. The APA code of ethics and specialty guidelines will be used to support my reasoning. Furthermore, they will serve as a baseline of boundaries within the profession to determine the expert witness’ influences to the case as well as their behavior within the profession.

The Articles provided no executive branch,so Congress had the complete authority to govern the U.S. The Constitution provided a president who would enforce the federal laws (Doc 5). The legislative branch was represented by one house, with each state having one vote. Also, no votes were needed to begin an important legislation. The Constitution created a bicameral legislature, and each state had equal representation in the Senate (Doc 5). Unlike the Articles where no votes were needed to enact a major legislation, the Constitution required a small amount of authority to proceed with a major legislation. The Articles of Confederation created no federal court system, so no states could sort out major affairs. The Constitution created national court system that could sort out the affairs between states and citizens. the different states had a changing population of Federalists and Antifederalists. One example of power regulation added into the Constitution is the checks and balances governmental system.This system of government in the branches made it so the three branches could regulate each other’s power. Another example of power regulation, is the addition of the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments of the Constitution which protected the individual rights of people. Again, the most major difference between the two guidelines of government was the shift of power. This shift of power altered the political environment of the United States as a young

I found this unit to very interesting because although I knew that each state had its own constitution I did not realize some of the similarities and differences that they shared. It is important to understand your states constitution because we have more contact with state and local governments on a daily basis than we do with the federal government. Above I made this table that visually shows us the United States and Georgia Constitution so we can compare and contrast them. As we can see the United States Constitution has seven articles and was only ratified once in 1787, while the Georgia Constitution has eleven articles and had been ratified 10 times with the more recent in 1983. Looking at my table I bolded the similarities between the

There are three primary dissimilarities between the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation. Firstly, the Constitution advocated for a strong national government, which the Articles were deficient in. This is because the drafters of the Articles failed to include legislations that would promote a powerful central government, which would eventually cause major issues in the colonies. Following the Revolutionary war, each state considered itself to be sovereign and as such refused to give up certain rights, such as the right to tax (O’Connor & Sabato, 2018, p.22). As a result of the Articles, the national government was too weak and unable to control the actions of the states, one of the things the Constitution set out to fix. Secondly,

With the above synopsis of the three important documents, I can now really compare them all. The Declaration is a statement to declare freedom and separate from Great Britain, listing all the horrible things the king did for the colonies’ reason to become independent, while the U.S. Constitution was written after, to be more specific to the government and how that should be run. The Declaration was more of a broad, almost philosphical view of what the US should be. The Constitution lays out the new government stating there will be a Congress, President, and a Supreme Court. It further details the powers of each branch and how each should be run. The Constitution was written by respresentatives of all the states; however the Declaration was written by Jefferson and revised by the delegates of the 13 colonies. The letter Jefferson wrote to the Danburry Baptists sparked a debate about the separation between church and state and what that really means. There have been many interpretations of that over the

Compare and contrast the Articles of confederation and the Constitution, especially in regard to the specific powers granted to the national government.The formation and ideals of the Articles of Confederation and its successor, the Unites States Constitution, varied from each other in terms of a stronger or weaker federal government in dealing with issues. The Constitution gave more power to the federal government, while the Articles of Confederation involved a very weak government with primary rights interests of the individual states as the focus. Both gave Congress legislative power and set up departments that would eventually be incorporated into the president’s cabinet. The formation of the Articles of Confederation was of the