Why Is It Important To Ratifying The Constitution
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From the years 1781 to 1789, the United States of America were governed under a document known as the Articles of Confederation. Prior to the ratification of today’s United States Constitution, this paper was the layout for the federal government that united the separate thirteen colonies in their movement for independence from Britain. It was put to the test as an effective form of command by a number of problems and events that arose shortly after America gained independence from its mother country. The signing of the Treaty of Paris granted the state’s new land and a new position in the world as a nation. Various ordinances came about in the mid 1780’s to address westward expansion. The Articles of Confederation were most successful in dealing with westward expansion due to the effectiveness of the Ordinances that were drafted under it and the benefits it brought. However the Articles of Confederation were substantially less ideal in managing America’s foreign relations. Therefore, rather than fixing the existing Articles, a new constitution was required. The Convention would draft an entirely new frame of government, at last it was “drafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional …show more content…
New York in particular feared that ratification of the Constitution as it was written would transfer many civil liberties away from the people to a large, authoritarian government. “The issues addressed in the Bill of Rights included freedom of religion, press, speech, and assembly; the right to keep and bear firearms; the right to refuse to house soldiers on private property; the right to trial by jury and due process of law; protection against unreasonable searches and seizures; and protection against cruel and unusual punishment”. (Aboukhadijeh, Feross). These subjects would be covered in the first eight of ten amendments known as the Bill of
From the years 1781 to 1789, the United States of America were governed under a document known as the Articles of Confederation. Prior to the ratification of today’s United States Constitution, this paper was the layout for the federal government that united the separate thirteen colonies in their movement for independence from Britain. It was put to the test as an effective form of command by a number of problems and events that arose shortly after America gained independence from its mother country. The signing of the Treaty of Paris granted the state’s new land and a new position in the world as a nation. Various ordinances came about in the mid 1780’s to address westward expansion. The Articles of Confederation were most successful in dealing with westward expansion due to the effectiveness of the Ordinances that were drafted under it and the benefits it brought. However the Articles of Confederation were substantially less ideal in managing America’s foreign relations. Therefore, rather than fixing the existing Articles, a new constitution was required. The Convention would draft an entirely new frame of government, at last it was “drafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional …show more content…
New York in particular feared that ratification of the Constitution as it was written would transfer many civil liberties away from the people to a large, authoritarian government. “The issues addressed in the Bill of Rights included freedom of religion, press, speech, and assembly; the right to keep and bear firearms; the right to refuse to house soldiers on private property; the right to trial by jury and due process of law; protection against unreasonable searches and seizures; and protection against cruel and unusual punishment”. (Aboukhadijeh, Feross). These subjects would be covered in the first eight of ten amendments known as the Bill of