After gaining independence, our founding fathers created an extremely unique, and revolutionary government in order to set up a social contract between America and its people. Purposefully not trying to be anything like their previously rulers the British, Americans created a new one from the ideas of republicanism. Under the Articles of Confederation, the power was given to the states as opposed to a centralized government. However, this made it difficult to raise revenue. Without the power to tax, congress could not pay back debts. Also, needing nine out thirteen votes from the states to pass a law made it almost nearly impossible to get anything done. Additionally, lacking an executive to carry out the laws of congress made those laws easily ignored by the states. The fathers set up the Constitution to be what is known as a living document, or a document that has the ability to change over time, just as society does. .
A couple years following the ratification of the Constitution, Congress felt that the President needed more assistance in carrying out all of his duties just recently placed at his feet. He was expected to be the Commander in Chief as well as run the entire executive branch merely with the help of his Vice President. To fix that, Congress passed an abundance of statues during the 1980s in order to create what we now know as the Department of State, Department of Defense and the Department of Treasury. This also created a mass amount of jobs within the executive department giving it more power then previously designed within the Constitution. Another piece of legislation that was passed during this stage of constitutional development called the Federalist Stage was the Judiciary Act of 1787. This gave the judicial branch a large increase of influence by giving them more jurisdiction by way of creating the first district courts as well as creating the Attorney General's Office, whose job was to represent the US in supreme court cases.