My name is Cristian Jimenez and I am a community member who resides in your state of New Jersey. I am writing to you today in regards to the recent national debate about whether or not our colony, New Jersey, should ratify the new Constitution or not. Ratifying the Constitution would greatly benefit New Jersey but more importantly, it would benefit all thirteen colonies as a whole and united everyone as a nation. Some individuals may argue that this new constitution is a threat to our liberties
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Iroquois Political Theory vs. U.S. Constitution The Iroquois people have inhabited areas of Canada and northern New York for the last 4,000 years, while the US has only been a country and had a government for around 240 years. The Iroquois confederacy was originally made comprising of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca tribes to prevent and resolve inter tribal conflict and to make the land more peaceful. The US Constitution and the Iroquois political theory are both similar and different
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The Bill of Rights is what had made up the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The first ten amendments give people the essential freedoms and civil liberties that would keep the United States categorized as a democracy. These ten amendments were ratified on December 15, 1791 and as such were added to the Constitution. One thing most people might not know is that the Bill of Rights had been proposed by George Mason during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The idea
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The Constitution The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States. The articles of Confederation was very short lived because it was not strong enough to be the constitution. The Articles of confederation still gave many responsibilities to Great Britain. The government could not impose taxes, raise an army, or regulate trade. States depended on themselves during war times. The government needed a way to fix the articles of confederation. So on May 14, 1887, 55 different
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aide-de-camp, and was later promoted to lieutenant colonel. After the war was over, he started to study law. During this time he had put much thought into the flaws of the Articles of Confederation. He wrote detailed descriptions of how he planned to reform America's government and finance. Hamilton had soon come to revise the Articles, and was called to the Federal Convention of 1787. There, he was outvoted by the others, who were opposed to the emerging Constitution (Freeman, 2006). “Men often oppose
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how our government should have been set up once our country separated from Great Britain. The Articles of Confederation created a loose confederation of strong state governments and a weak central government. There are similarities and differences to both of these documents. They were both made to help form this country’s government when our nation was just starting out. The Constitution and the Articles of Confederation both laid out some guidelines for how our country’s government should be formed
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two different groups that worked on the Articles of Confederation, and together created what is now our Constitution. This wasn’t an easy task to accomplish, there were many debates in order to create this document. To create the Constitution, 55 delegates met together at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to discuss how to adjust the Articles of Confederation to the new, developing country. Due to the “weaknesses” that presented itself within the Articles of Confederation, many delegates were split
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United States of America, one of the greatest documents ever to be written, and the rope that keeps this vast nation tied together. Although this great document may seem flawless, many components and ideas have been amended and argued as allowed by “Article Five” of the U.S. Constitution. When writing and discussing the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, many of the authors and scholars disagreed on the ratification of the Constitution whilst others favored the ratification of the famous
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This essay is going to compare and contrast both Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, They both had some major differences, but other things they had the same thought process. Many things were different about their beliefs with the role and nature of the newly created United States government. Hamilton mainly like the more power of the government the better it is for society. Jefferson wanted more of a smaller government and having people with individual rights. Hamilton and Jefferson were two
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problems in the Articles of Confederation and created a strong government with the U.S. Constitution. While the Anti-Federalists believed that the U.S. Constitution was too powerful. The Federalists were fundamental to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution because they pointed out the problems in the Articles of Confederation. “Government under the Articles of Confederation could not enforce a treaty or a law when made nor impose any taxes for any purpose” (Alchin). The Articles of Confederation
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