Zinn And Arnove: A Comparative Analysis

On the day that the United States of America declared to become independent, people of the United States began to have a completely different life which started from the new government structure that been established. Due to the change of political situation after America's declaration of independence, revision of law took the priority to better serve the nation. Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove both were writers, editors, and social activists that were best known for their anti-war movement. They had published a book together called Voices of a People's History of the United States, which mainly discussed the process on how the people who had been treated unequally to fight for their rights and how much their lives had changed since then( Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove, 2004). The creation of the United States Constitution was the first step to establishing American Democracy which proposed during the Constitutional Convention. The debate that brought up primarily was the number of representatives that each state should have. This debate led to the publishment of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan, two different plans that favored in a different
Constitution. Paterson delivered the New Jersey Plan with his concern of the voices of smaller states would be drawn out of larger states if the Virginia Plan been approved (Abraham Messler, 1954). His plan was particularly in response to the Virginia Plan, which in favor of proportional representation and a bicameral legislature( Leonard Williams Levy, 2000). The New Jersey Plan supported each state has one vote regardless of their population and the unicameral legislature. The with the final decision had come after their intense debate, that was the rejection of the New Jersey Plan, and the main reason was because it was too concentrated on gain more power to small states rather than the