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The Confederation and the Constitution
• Now What
• Revolution successful
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The Confederation and the Constitution
• REPUBLICAN
• Power with consent of people
• Not majority
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• The Pursuit of Equality
• The Continental Army officers formed an exclusive hereditary order called the Society of the Cincinnati.
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• Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom- created in 1786 by Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers; stated that religion should not be imposed on anybody and that each person decided his/her own faith.
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• Philadelphia Quakers in 1775 founded the first anti-slavery society.
• The 1st Continental Congress called for the complete abolition of the slave trade in 1774.
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• Several northern states went further and either abolished slavery altogether or provided the gradual emancipation of slaves. No states south of Pennsylvania abolished slavery
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• Constitution Making in the States
• The 2nd Continental Congress called upon the colonies in 1776 to draft new constitutions. Massachusetts called a special convention to draft its constitution and then submitted the final draft to the people.
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• As written documents, the state constitutions were intended to represent a fundamental law, superior to the short-lived impulses of ordinary legislation.
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• In the Revolutionary era, the capitals of New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were all moved westward.
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• Economic democracy preceded political democracy.
• Due to the independence from Britain, the United States had to make everything on its own which it no longer imported from Britain.
• Many Americans were poor because the economy was so bad.
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• Creating a Confederation
• Shortly before declaring independence in 1776, the 2nd Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft a written constitution for the new nation. The finished product was the Articles of Confederation.
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• It was adopted by Congress in 1777 and it convinced France that America had a genuine government in the making. The Articles of Confederation wasn't ratified by all 13 colonies until 1781.
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• The Articles of Confederation: America's First Constitution
• The 13 colonies were joined together for joint action in dealing with common problems such as foreign affairs.
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• Congress had 2 major handicaps: It had no power to regulate commerce, and this loophole left the states free to establish conflictingly laws regarding tariffs and navigation.
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• Congress couldn't enforce its tax collection program. The states were NOT required to pay the government taxes, they were merely asked.
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• Land Ordinance of 1785- stated that the acreage of the Old Northwest should be sold and the proceeds should be used to help pay off the national debt.
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• Northwest Ordinance of 1787- a uniform national land policy; created the Northwest Territories and gave the land to the government, the land could then be purchased by individuals; when a territory had 60,000 people, it might be admitted by Congress as a state, with all the privileges of the 13 other states.
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• The World's Ugly Duckling
• Britain declined to make any commercial treaty with the colonies or to repeal its Navigation Laws.
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• Lord Sheffield argued in his pamphlet that Britain could win back America's trade.
• The British remained in the Americas where they maintained their fur trade with the Indians. The American states did not honor the treaty of peace in regard to debts and Loyalists.
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• British stayed primarily to keep the Indians on the side of the British so to defend against future attacks on Canada by the Americans.
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• Spain was openly unfriendly to the Americans. It closed off the Mississippi river to commerce in 1784.
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• The Horrid Specter of Anarchy• Shay's Rebellion- in western
Massachusetts in 1786; when impoverished back-country farmers, who were losing their farms through mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies,.
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• attempted to enforce their demands of cheap paper money, lighter taxes, and a suspension of property takeovers; led by Captain Daniel Shays. The uprising was crushed but it left fear in the propertied class of mobs
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• A Convention of "Demigods"
• In 1786, Virginia called for a convention at Annapolis, Maryland. There, Alexander Hamilton saved the convention from collapsing - delegates from only 5 states showed up.
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• He called upon Congress to summon a convention to meet in Philadelphia the next year, not to deal with just commerce, but to fix then entire fabric of the Articles of Confederation.
• Alexander Hamilton was an advocate of a super-powerful central government.
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• On May 25, 1787, 55 representatives from all of the states except for Rhode Island were sent to Philadelphia to talk of the government in the future of the country. (Constitutional Convention) George Washington was elected as the leader.
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• Patriots in Philadelphia
• The delegates hoped to save the revolutionary idealism and make it into a strong political structure.
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• Hammering Out a Bundle of Compromises
• Some of the delegates decided they would scrap the old Articles of Confederation, contradicting instructions from Congress to revise it.
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• The "large-state plan" was proposed by Virginia and was first pushed forward as the framework of the Constitution. It said that the arrangement in Congress should be based upon a state's population.
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• New Jersey presented the "small-state plan." It centered on equal representation in Congress without regards to a state's size or population.
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• The "Great Compromise" of the convention was hammered out and finally agreed upon. It called for representation by population in the House of Representatives, and equal representation in the Senate. Each state would have 2 senators.
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• The new Constitution also called for a President.
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• Because of arguments over if the slaves would count towards the general population of the state, the "three-fifths compromise" was created. The new Constitution also called for the end of the slave trade by the end of 1807.
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• All new state constitutions except Georgia's forbade overseas slave trade.
• Rhode Island was not present at the Constitutional Convention.
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• All new state constitutions except Georgia's forbade overseas slave trade.
• Rhode Island was not present at the Constitutional Convention.
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• Safeguards for Conservatism
• The members of the Constitutional Convention agreed economically-demanded sound money and the protection of private property; and politically-favored a stronger government with 3 branches and with checks and balances among them.
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• The Clash of Federalists and Anti-federalists
• The Anti-federalists were led by Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, and Richard Henry Lee. The followers consisted of states' rights devotees, back country dwellers, and one-horse farmers - in general, the poorest class.
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• Federalists were led by George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Most of the Federalists lived in the settled areas along the seaboard. Overall, they were wealthier than the Anti-federalists, more educated, and better organized. They also controlled the press.
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• The Great Debate in the States
• Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, and New Hampshire were the first 9 states to sign the Constitution. Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island were the only states to not sign it. (4 Laggard States)
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• Virginia, New York, and North Carolina all ratified the Constitution before it was put into effect. Rhode Island was the last state to ratify it and it did so only after the new government had been in operation for a few months.
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• These 4 states did not ratify the Constitution because they wanted to but because they had to. They could not safely exist outside the fold.
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• A Conservative Triumph
• The architects of the Constitution contented that every branch-executive, judiciary, and legislative-effectively represented the people.
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• By imbedding the principle of self-rule in a self-limiting system of checks and balances among these 3 branches, the Constitution settled the conflicting doctrines of liberty and order.
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• Civic virtue
• Basis was property ownership
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• Equality
• No women or minorities
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• Laws must be written down
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• Each state had Constitution
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• Most European governments (England)
• Had bicameral• Upper and Lower Houses
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• Weak federal government
• Power rested in states
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• States were almost 13 Sovereign nations loosely united
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• 1777-Articles of Confederation
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• Duties of Congress
• War Foreign relations
• Ability to borrow money
• Issue money*
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• Could not regulate commerce
• Could not collect taxes
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• Loose confederation of states
• States had to approve all legislation by 9 out of 13
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• Amendments all states had to approve
• No Executive branch of government
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• Small and Large States equal representation
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• Failure with success• Federal government was weak
• Interstate issues could not be dealt with
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• Diplomatic problems
• Countries did not know who to deal with States or Nation
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• Small States were just as powerful as large states
• Different economies had different needs
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• Success
• Claims to new territories
• abandoned
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• States did relinquish claims to new territories
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• Ordinance of 1785• Thomas Jefferson • Territories could apply for
state hood when population equaled the population of the smallest state
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• Ordinance of 1785• Survey and selling lands• Grid developed rectangular prototype for cities
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• Northwest Ordinance 1787
• Abandoned 10 districts
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OhioIndiana IllinoisMichigan
Wisconsin
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• Each Territory could apply for Statehood after population reached 60,000
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• Shays rebellion
• Upset with foreclosure
• Rebelled
• Squashed quickly
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• Jefferson said
• “an elective despotism is not we fought for”
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• Something was broke
• No foreign relations
• Rebellions
• No government
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• Annapolis Meeting called by Alexander Hamilton
• 5 states attended• Agreed to meet formally in Philadelphia next year
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• Met in Philadelphia
• Every State sent a representative except Rhode Island
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• George Washington was elected President
• Gave convention instant credibility
• Was only to reform Articles of Confederation
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• Who was not there
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• It was a closed Convention
• No facebook no CNN No Twitter
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• Total secrecy
• Delegates first agreed to a stronger central government (Federalists)
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• Virginia Plan
• 3 branches of government
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• Executive
• Legislative
• Judicial
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• Based on Montesque
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• Lower House based on population
• Upper House No real plan small states could be left out
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• New Jersey Plan
• William Patterson
• Planned for equal reprentation
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• The Great Compromise• House would be based on population
• Senate equal representation 2 each
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• All monetary bills originate in House of Representatives
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• Population • How would slaves be counted
• North should not be counted
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• South wanted all slaves counted towards population
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• Issue of slavery not addressed in Constitution
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• Compromise
• Slaves would be counted as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxes
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• Slaves could not vote and had no protection of rights
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• No Individual rights in Constituion
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• Consent of govern
• Not majority
• People are in charge
• Not the government
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• However if people consent
• Constitution would become the Supreme law of the land but states had rights
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• Checks and Balances
• Separation of Powers
• No one branch stronger than the other
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Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
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• Two tyrannies
• Despots
• Mob rule
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• Ratification
• Federalist Papers
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• Anti-Federalists
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• Big Debate • Federalist Papers written under Publicus
• Proponents of Constitution
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• Anti-Federalist
• Thomas Jefferson
• Sam Adams
• Patrick Henry
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• Against strong Central Government
• States Rights• No private rights for citizens
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• Need 9 states to ratify• New York and Virginia Heated debate
• Passed on assumption • On Bill of Rights
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• Constitution ratified a new form of government
• An experiment• Who Will lead this new Nation
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• George Washington
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