From Independence in 1776 to 1781, United States existed without any formal constitution. ... Although the Articles of Confederation gave the United States a first formal constitution, it did not provided an effective form of government with respect to Economic conditions. ... As a result congress created a national domain policy for the common benefit of the United States. For the first time, the confederation government created by the Articles of Confederation had the power to dictate the domestic institution of a part of the United States. ... With respect to western lands, the confederate ...

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Then in 1787 the Constitution of the United States was passed creating a stronger central government to help the newly formed nation from collapsing. ... This created the foundation for the bill of rights that was later implemented into the constitution. ... This led to the creation of the Constitution and laid the framework for the American nation. ... Without a uniform national policy many states attempts at stabilizing the economy failed. ... And in 1787 the Constitution was passed creating a stronger central government that unified the nation. ...

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Some of the most important events or compromises that influenced this course of action were the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, and the Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions. ... These agreements became know as the Constitution of the United States. ... The new government of the United States relied on the Constitution, and it was prudent that the requests in it were clear, strong, and beneficial to the people of the United States. ... The Constitution made a distinct boundary line which the power of the United States could not over step. ... The Articles of Confedera...

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The Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an ineffective government by allowing the states to maintain its sovereignty. ... The United States had no executive branch of the government; instead it had thirteen different law making bodies. ... Instead of creating a new Constitution, the states fought with patching up the old Articles, creating turmoil and unnecessary struggles, " Upon discovering a flaw, instead of repairing the injury, should pull it down, and build another one." (Document H) Unrestricted trade was a newly acquired privilege within the United States. ... T...

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The federal government's inability to tax restricted the United States' ability to function. ... This resulted in many Americans promoting a Constitution that strengthened the United States federal government. ... The Constitution's ratification in 1789 gave the United States federal government a great deal of power, although it established a system of checks and balances fulfilling Madison's vision. ... Constitution's ratification provided the United States with a document that specifically laid out the structure and limitations of the U.S. ... The United States bec...

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John Dickinson was working diligently on the first constitution that would unify the thirteen colonies into a loose confederation known as the United States of America. ... Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States was established as a loose confederation of 13 independently sovereign states with a weak central government and a unicameral legislature called the Confederation Congress. ... The result of the Constitutional Convention was, of course, the Constitution of the United States. ... The Constitution also included the Bill of Rights, which guaranteed liberties and rights to ...

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The Articles of Confederation was ratified in 1781 and was later superseded by the Constitution of the United States in 1789. ... This resulted in the Annapolis Convention of 1786 and the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787, which drafted the Constitution of the United States. ... Without such important documents as the Declaration of Independence, the Confederation of Articles and the Constitution of the United States, America would not have emerged as great a nation as it is perceived today. ... The Constitution of the United States (1787) on the other hand, was written to create or...

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With the implement of the Constitution, the United States government became effective. ... The beauty of the Constitution was that it allowed for these mistakes. Instead of the outrageous unanimous vote of states to change it, two-thirds of Congress and then three-fourths of the states must approve. ... Nonetheless, they were a necessary step in laying the foundation for the construction of the Constitution. It showed the basic ideas of democracy, and the Constitution was used in the expansion and enforcing of those ideas. ...

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I settled down in Oklahoma which is known to be one of the religious states in the "Bible Belt". ... As mentioned earlier, The United States is a highly religious country. ... The very language of the Constitution and Bill of Rights suggest that, though created with Christian morals in the back of their minds, the framers of the Constitution intended America to be a nation free from any one religious authority. ... Published on June 12th, 1776, the actual Virginia Constitution of 1776 would be published weeks later on the 29th of June. ... This shared sentiment meant "it becomes the duty of ...

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Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. ... Jacksonian Democrats were, to a great extent, the guardians of the United States Constitution and political democracy. ... The reasoning for many vetoes of unconstitutional laws was, in result, to uphold and protect the United States Constitution. ... The removal of the United States Bank minimized the federal corruption. ... Jackson and his followers were guardians of the United States Constitution because he used his ve...

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Native Americans, many of whom sided with the British in hopes of stopping colonial expansion onto native land, had large tribal territories relinquished to the newly formed United States after the war. ... Without question, the wealth of Southern plantations, and the Northern states, were directly associated with the exploitation of African slave labor. ... Constitution itself did not outright endorse slavery in America moving forward, there were numerous clauses that ensured the black population would be kept in check. The Constitution enforced the return of fleeing slaves to their masters, ...

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After winning the war against England, the new United States no longer paid taxes to absent leaders and gained control over its own people, letting its wealthier citizens gain the power they had desired in colonial times. ... After the Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation formed the federal government of the United States. ... A United States government with no money could not pay back its loans to rich citizens, and problems regulating trade often weakened the business of prosperous merchants. ... During the drafting of the constitution, a large propertyless mass was excluded from...

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Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. ... Then came an amendment to the constitution, the Bill of Rights. ... In direct correlation with our nation's constitution is a political philosophy know as libertarianism. ... As our constitution has it's founding fathers so does the Libertarian movement. ... Hayek, and the brilliant philosopher author Ayn Rand wag...

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Out of their utter distrust of a centralized government, due to their association with the English monarchial system, the drafters deliberately established these articles as a loose confederation of states, rather than a firmly united nation. ... Under the authority of the Confederation, the United States began to introduce itself in the global scene. The United States determined its place in the community of nations by establishing diplomatic relations and its participation in the world economy. ... However, despite the flaws and setbacks imposed by the Articles, the fledgling Congress proved...

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The result of the Convention was a twofold balance of the executive and legislative powers and the states and the federal government, with the judicial branch, she feels, the umpire between them. ... While she correctly diagnoses the significance of the conflict between the large and small states, she underestimates the role of sectionalism in the convention. ... The author's view of the proper role of the states in the 1780's seems to owe more to the Federalists and to events after 1789 than to objective scholarship, and her suggestion that the Constitution created no central power ...

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Subsequently, Hancock led to the post war effort in developing the republican government in the United States. ... He then went on, and with the popular support, was named president of the United States, where he set precedence still existent today, economically, politically, and socially. ... It was there that Lee impacted the histories of both the United States and Great Britain's. ... It was there that his betrayal of the United States took place, selling out the continental army, revealing sensitive information. ... He maintained that such policy as the popularly elected presi...

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Thomas Jefferson was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a key spokesperson for democracy and equal rights for all Americans. ... On October 26, 1776, the Continental Congress officially adopted "Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America." ... From the time it appeared, the people of the United States were able to see, in writing, the ideals they were trying so vigorously to defend. ... The Lawn and the Rotunda have served as models of inspiration for similar designs of "centralized green areas" at universities across the United States. It was the first non-se...

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Reforms were in part due to the massive renovation the United States went under after the War of 1812. ... This movement was very successful, such that some states, like Maine, even banned the sale of alcohol. ... Religion was an imperative motivation force for the want of the abolishment of slavery in the United States. ... His motivation was to abolish slavery, because it wasn't justified, according to the Constitution, and the rights granted to everyone by God. ... Reforms that were in part due to the massive renovation the United States went under after the War of 1812. ...

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As for the Declaration of Independence, constructed by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, was a declaration from a group of well-off people who were interested in pursuing their own prosperity at the expense of the non-elites in the society. ... The statement that, "all men are created equal" (class notes), entails that everybody who is born to this world, insofar as he or she is identifies as one of the members of the United States, is to be treated with equal consideration regardless of the person's origin, race, gender, intelligence, etc. ... Officially, sl...

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That ideology in turn providing lasting implications that worked to shape the Government of the United States of America into a new entity among Europe's monarchies. ... Constitution, but we also see it, perhaps in a more pronounced way in the revolutionary literature of the time. ... With the ratification of the United States Constitution The American government was set up as a modified version of the English Government. America's constituent states, the old colonies, more or less continued their old forms of government, also modeled on the English. ... The system of governm...

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One of the great American revolutionaries once proclaimed, "These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent States." ... With these lasting words of his, full of virtue and passion, the colonies were on their way to declaring independence from Britain and becoming the United States of America. In the years leading up to and following the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee fought for the liberty of all Americans, bringing unity and morality to the colonies while working to define the United States. ... Lee's advancement had ultimately led to the birt...

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The Renaissance Man In a time of great turmoil, Benjamin Franklin is credited with major contributions to the sciences, modern inventions of the time, as well help form the way the United States government is found today. By trade Benjamin Franklin was a printer, but had the capability to shape the way the United States is today. As a result of his accomplishments, he could be considered the United States first Renaissance man. ... Benjamin Franklin is also credited for founding the Philadelphia's Union Fire Company, the first fire company in the United States. ...

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The Writing of the Constitution On July 2, 1776, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and Thomas Jefferson finished the final draft of their Declaration of Independence. ... The declaration contained a basic but integral principle which is important even today, and justified the independence movement for the newly formed United States of America. ... This principle has continued to be significant to the United States because it gives every citizen the right to question the government and to actually do something about it. ... Most state co...

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Thinkers in the United States and British North America adopted strong political and religious views that greatly influenced the American Revolution. ... He was an inventor, scientist, politician, civic activist, as well as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. ... John Adams was an American politician, theorist, and the second president of the United States. ... James Madison was the "Father of the Constitution.... One of the first steps to forming the United States was the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and the foundation of the political party b...

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These rights are our natural rights as American citizens today, as the declaration of independence states. ... To prevent situations like this from happening in the future the American colonies devised a constitution to state the rights of each and every American citizen and to limit and establish the power of government. ... The first thing the American government did was establish a constitution; the first amendment of the constitution was the article of confederation, this untied all of the colonies with a central government like in the Albany Plan of Union. ... The smaller states, which...

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