The Constitution
Lori Gregory
History 115
7/7/14
Jody Ault

The Constitution

In order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country, Jefferson had a list of grievances against the king. Instead of fixing the existing articles, the convention would draft an entirely new frame of government. Delegates were trying to figure out how each state would be represented in congress, is called the Great Compromise.
Regardless of the population, the delegates set up a system where all the states would have the same amount of congressional representatives (Martin Kelly, 2014).

In the House of Representatives, the number of representatives each state gets is based on the population of the state. Elected by their states, Representatives serve a two-year term. In the
Senate, there are two senators from each state for a total of one hundred senators. Each Senator elected serves a two-year term. When voting for a President, the candidates’ names appear on ballots, and the people mark who they prefer, but technically do not vote directly for the president. Voters from each state select a slate of presidential electors. The candidate with the highest number of votes in each state wins all the “electoral votes” of that state. The electors of all fifty states and the District of Columbia, makeup the Electoral College. After the election, the electors in each state gather in their capital and votes for a candidate with the largest number of popular votes in their state. A candidate for a presidency must receive two hundred and seventy electoral votes out of a possible five hundred thirty-eight (Martin Kelly, 2014).

Slaves and free African embraced the principles of Liberty and equality embedded in the
Declaration as their own best hope for freedom and better treatment. Clinging to their understanding of "all men are created equal," The Society of Friends tried to push the country closer to living out the full promise of its words (Fact master,2008).
An amendment is a correction made to the original content of the constitution that was original approved in 1788. At some point in time all twenty-seven amendments have been ratified (LexisNexis, 2009)
To give congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states and with the Indian Tribes is called the Commerce Clause. To eliminate how much power the government has is what the constitution is for. The "dormant" commerce clause refers to the prohibition against states passing legislation that discriminates against commerce.
Commerce is a source of much of the controversy. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination against African Americans. Also in the commerce law was the violence against women act. Making domestic violence against women a crime (Cornell University Law School).
For the ratification of the original constitution, required that any changes had to be presented to the state legislature and required unanimous approval. The new plan had to have a startling new approach through a ratifying procedure that went directly to the people. The only way the constitution would become law, is if nine of the thirteen states approved it. Special conventions would be held for the people to evaluate important changes.

Congresses approval to the terms of this unusual, illegal, ratifying route was odd.
Surprisingly, the state legislatures approved it to, and began arranging for the election of special delegates’ at the state ratification conventions (USHistory.org,2014).

James Madison wrote the first ten amendments to the constitution that makes up the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power. The
House approved seventeen amendments of these seventeen, and the senate approved twelve.
Those twelve were sent to the states for approval in August of 1789. Of those twelve, ten were quickly approved or ratified. The Bill of Rights is a list of limits on government power
(Billofrightsinstitute, 2010).

Reference
Retrieved from billofrightsinstitute.org/.../new-video-rule-of-law/
Cornell Law School...Lawyers in the Best Sense. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/
Ratifying the Constitution [ushistory.org]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ushistory.org/us/16.asp