However, despite its inherent flaws, the Confederation government did prove capable to accomplish a few foreign and domestic achievements. ... Alarmed by the rebellion, other state governments agreed to help the angry farmers to thwart these rebellions. ... Thus, the Annapolis Convention of 1786 was held to address regional issues such as trade, but delegates were soon calling for a national convention . At this convention in Philadelphia 1787, the authors of a new plan proposed change of the loose confederation of states to a solid national union. ... Still, a need for constitutional chang...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scheduled to beg in on May 14, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Constitutional Convention progressed through the summer to establish a new form of government. Although the convention was called for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, Delegates expressed an overwhelming interest in a new and stronger form of central government. ... Upon ratification of the United States Constitution, in 1789, this agreed upon a form of government put into effect, and has operated as the government of the United States ever since. ... In this essay, Hamilton elaborates heavily on t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the Constitutional Convention, debates were centered on how strong the chief executive and the national government should be in relation to the states and the people. After the American Revolution, the delegates established the Articles of Confederation. ... Because the lack of a bill of rights in the Constitution, the Anti-Federalists focused almost all of their energies on attacking the Constitution because it did not explicitly guarantee the rights of the people. ... They agreed that a republican government was the only suitable government, but a republic government required the active s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the Constitutional Convention, debates were centered on how strong the chief executive and the national government should be in relation to the states and the people. After the American Revolution, the delegates established the Articles of Confederation. ... Because the lack of a bill of rights in the Constitution, the Anti-Federalists focused almost all of their energies on attacking the Constitution because it did not explicitly guarantee the rights of the people. ... They agreed that a republican government was the only suitable government, but a republic government required the active s...

• Word Count: 1152
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The body of government was the Congress, comprising delegates from the thirteen states. ... Only in one area did the Congress coax a unified policy from the states, the area of land reform. The major landholding states--Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts--did cede their western lands to the Congress. ... The founding fathers realized this need for a stronger central government and eventually organized at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to discuss the problem. ... Although problems continued to exist over questions like whether to have a national bank, the Founding...

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He was nominated for President at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campaigned on a program called the New Freedom, which stressed individualism and states' rights. ... (Internet 1)" So Wilson did what he had to do in order to stay in office. ...

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• Grade Level: High School