The Formation U.S. of the Constitution
How did the The United States Constitution overcome the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and provide for the organization of the new government? In the 1780s the United States created their first formal government after the colonist won the revolutionary war against the British.The Article of Confederation was a unicameral legislature also every state had a single vote and gave more power to the states not the central government. The Constitutional convention was about how a state can be represented in the legislature and a compromise between the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan. That Federalist wanted to ratify the constitution to have a stronger central government, but the anti…
The Great compromise was one of the key arguments at the Constitutional convention. The Larger states had a bigger population when they added slaves, they would have more votes than the smaller states. The larger states like the Virginia plan because it was favoring the larger states. The New Jersey plan also William Paterson favored it. They wanted all states to have an equal vote one vote.The New Jersey plan was favored for the smaller states. The people would vote for the representative government or legislators. The larger states wanted more power in the legislature. They wanted to count slaves, but since they are slaves, they didn’t count, so the counted ? compromise so ? slaves were counted as 3…
The Debate over the constitution was important for the entire United States. Anti Federalist were people who didn’t want to ratify the constitution. They didn’t want to give the central government more power scared it could turn into Britain. There scared they will cripple the state’s power so they have little control. Federalist were people who wanted to ratify the constitution. The federalist wanted a stronger central government so that it has more control over the states. The articles gave the central government with very little power so they want to ratify it. The important Federalist were John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. They were Strong supporters of the Constitution . They wrote an 85 page essay in the New York newspaper to get New York citizens to ratify the constitution. That Debating the Constitution was important for our country in its first stages of a of developing a government equal for all and also what didn’t work for the articles work for this government.
That the Articles of Confederation, The constitutional convention and The debate over the Constitution were very important for the colonist to develop an equal, fair and working government for all Americans. That The Articles of Confederation was the Nation’s first government, but didn’t work well.The debate on the Constitution was where we got our first real government formed there. The debate over the constitution…
