Essays on Confederation

The Analysis of the Washington farewell

Introduction The farewell speech of Washington is a historical reference in the history of America. Washington used the speech to tell the citizens as a way to indicate that he was retiring from the office. In the farewell speech, he addressed some things that would one way, or another affect the living of the people and the country itself. For example, he talked about the importance of unity in all the states; he advised the citizens to live as members of the same country and not to live as members of a loose confederation of states. He said that ...

The United States of America has a storied and complex history. Because the beginnings of our nation transpired with rebellion, there is much controversy about when our nation actually became a nation. Many believe that it was the formal acknowledgement of our sovereignty by the nation that governed us, Great Britain. But the true answer is that our nation actually became a nation shortly thereafter, when the Articles of the Confederation were adopted and ratified by the colonies in 1777. The ratification of the Articles of the Confederation marked the first founding constitution of our country. Up until that ...

The United States of America have gone a fairly long way of establishment. Starting as a number of colonies, and ending up as one of the most powerful countries in the contemporary world, the U.S. has proved that nothing is impossible, and that mistakes can only lead to the better future. One of the greatest examples for this statement would be the existence of the Articles of Confederation, with all their vices, because it were the wrongs in this document that made it possible for the Constitution to be written. The present paper is meant to dwell upon the ...

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The European Union is the result of the flow of economic integration in the world. It was created in 1958 and became a powerful economic group. Within the framework of the Union, the benefits of mutual trade are established, the general economic policy is carried out, and restrictions on the movement of goods, capital, and labor are constantly removed (Krugman, Obstfeld, and Melitz, 2014). The creation of the EU was due primarily to the fact that in Western Europe after the Second World War, the contradiction between the international character of modern production and the narrow national and state ...

Question 1 Response: Creating a new Constitution was vital to the unity of the United States of America since the Articles of Confederation weren’t sufficient for good government. If there was any evidence of this, it was that the United States was clearly bankrupt and now needed to be organized in such a manner that both the States and the Federal government had to share power in such a manner that everyone’s interests were kept in mind. A centralized approach was key to putting the country back on track. Hence, a meeting was held in the Pennsylvania ...

Federalism in the United States has evolved over the past 200 years from an arrangement where state and national government powers and responsibilities were clearly distinct and separate, to one in which the line of distinction between the two has blurred. When the framers drafted the Constitution, they provided separate powers to the federal government in Article One. A few of these clauses extended the power of the national government in order to prevent the hazards faced by the Articles of Confederation. In order to ensure that limitations still existed on the federal government, the Tenth Amendment was included. ...

First and foremost, the Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty signed a decade before the confederation promoted Canada’s business ties with America. As Canada’s export to America increased, the Maritime economy prospered. However, the cancellation of the treaty as a result of Canada’s war with America began to threaten the economy of the region. More importantly, I feel the attitude of Canada towards becoming a confederation at the expense of the Maritimes proved detrimental to the economy of the Maritimes. For instance, before the confederation, the Maritime population enjoyed their unlimited economic potential under their British Colonial rulers. After ...

The following primary documents include two antifederalist essays and three federalist essays that were published in newspapers three to six months following the Constitutional Convention. The antifederalists aimed to convince the states that the new constitution would not work while the federalists hoped to gain support and ratification of the new constitution. In 1787 and 1788, when the essays were written, the new country was struggling. The Articles of Confederation were not sufficient, and the fears that resulted in the Revolutionary War were still very fresh in the minds of everyone.

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THE ANTIFEDERALIST NO. 18-20 WHAT DOES HISTORY TEACH? ( ...

The United States had two constitutions to regulate and establish the rights and state orders. Articles of Confederation came into force in 1781, when Maryland ratified it and it was the first Constitution of the United States (Fritz C. G., 2008, p.131). The Constitution came to replace the Articles of Confederation when it was ratified by New Hampshire in 1788. These two documents have much in common. However, there are quite significant differences between them. By comparing them it is possible to see what the drafters considered important in 1781, and that they changed their minds in 1788. Articles ...

Factors that led to the writing of the United States Constitution and the ideas behind the design

The needs to establish a national government and guard the fundamental rights of citizens are the factors that led to the writing of the constitution. Previously, the United States governing document was the Articles of Confederation that made the national government weak since states operated like independent countries (Archives). With the new constitutions, therefore, plans were in place to make the federal government stronger by having three branches including the executive, legislative and the judicial (Archives). Also, the design of the three branches was that no single branch would have much power since there were systems of checks and ...

The U.S. Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights was proposed and passed through twelve amendments but only ten were successfully ratified and became part of the United States Constitution, which was at first considered incomplete because it lacked what proponents called the basic human rights. The common belief at that time was that the framing and ratification of the Bill of Rights was to eliminate fears of the Anti-Federalists that the proposed Constitution did not satisfactorily guarantee individual freedoms. Even if individual liberty was important during the debate for the bill of rights, the Bill of Rights was ...

The Articles of Confederation was an attempt to prevent a central government from wielding too much power. When ratified in 1781, there was as central government and 13 states. But despite noble intentions, the attempt to create a limited government in the Articles of Confederation failed because the central government could not raise funds from the states, could not effectively keep the peace and could not pass amendments unless all of the states agreed. Schmidt, Shelley, Bardes and Ford (2014) say in their book that the Articles did not give Congress the power to levy taxes in order to ...

At the foundations of the American Revolutionary War, of between 1775 and 1783, were calls for independence among the Patriots residing in Britain’s Thirteen Colonies in North America. The Americans emerged victoriously and as a result, the English Monarch lost its claims over the vast territories. Now, the understanding of freedom in the thirteen regions revolved around the eradication of tyranny to pave the way for democracy and for that reason alone, the United States abhorred monarchies and promoted a government based on a democratic system. To that end, it is no wonder that concerns over the central ...

Some can touch the ball with their hands while some cannot. Some can get yellow cards while others can get red. Some always run and are never involved; others cannot cross the line and only wave their flags. What are these words about? Obviously, they are about a wonderful game of soccer. It is truly the Earth's national game. It gathers many millions before their televisions or computers and gets the stadiums full to the rim. It leaves calm very few and can make the most modest and polite people rage and burst the emotions in their support for ...

List the reasons for and against Confederacy. Did financial matters take priority?

In the 1850s and 1860s, cracks in the relationship between Britain and British North America began to appear due to North Brunswick stamps being bought by cents, not pence, and they had Charles Connell’s, not Queen Victoria’s, face on them. There were many Canadians during the nineteenth century who felt that uniting with the United States of America was impractical, unpopular, unnatural, but entirely necessary. There were many Canadians who felt that they had so much more in common with the United States that it made sense to unite together from an economic, cultural, defensive and historical ...

In the United States, apportionment describes the process of distributing seats in the House of Representatives among the 50 states. Each state is given seats according to its population as stated in the constitution. Every state must get at least one seat. Redistricting is a constitutional process that takes place every ten years where American districts of the state legislatures and U.S. House are redrawn. This occurs after the new population is announced by the U.S. Census Bureau. Some states lose some seats, others gain while others remain with the same number depending on the population change. Sometimes gerrymandering ...

The American political system as it was formulated by the Founding Fathers and written down in the Constitution was based on a particularly eighteenth century vision of liberal government based on Enlightenment ideals. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights as a document is a great example of what the priorities and values of the Framers of the Constitution were. The values of the Framers which they fought a war against Great Britain over basically centered around the belief in limited government, the decentralization of power and the separation of powers combined with a system of checks and balances. ...

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The purpose of this essay is to discuss the features of the American electoral system features; how does it allow stability and change to occur simultaneously? How does it allow the participation for most of the citizens and it may also serve to filter the citizens` input? First of all, the fifteenth amendment to the United States Constitution states clearly that the right to vote is not to be “denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (US constitution, 1870). The term servitude may be a little vague, yet it was initially used to ...

American Revolutionary War is the revolution, which aimed at gaining the US independence because of the growing conflict between some American colonies and the British Crown. Though initially being a revolution, it soon developed into the international war, as France got involved in it in 1775 ("American Revolution History - American Revolution - HISTORY.com", 2009, n.p.). So, what were the causes and consequences of the American Revolutionary War? What role did French and Indian War play? What was the effect of taxation? Let us consider these and some other aspects of American Revolutionary War in detail.

Causes and Consequences

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At the termination of the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton firmly believed in a strong centralized government. He had worked as a major in the American army during this era of revolution, where he noted detrimental consequences of a weak federal authority. However, the majority of the Americans were skeptical and doubted the increased centralization of government due to various reasons. Hamilton’s structure did not consider democracy; instead, it held that the United States’ government should be modeled on the British method of governance where voters could not be given any power to take part in the decision-making process ...

Describe the different courses of the Revolutionary War in New England, the middle colonies, and the South. What role did the battles in each region play in the eventual American victory? The American Revolutionary War was characterized by three phases being the New England phase, the middle colonies phase, and the Southern phase, which took place between 1775 and 1783 (Grossberg & Tomlins, 2008). New England colonies consisted of 13 colonies, which included Rhode Island colonies, Massachusetts, Providence Plantation, and New Hampshire among others. France attempted on several occasions to colonize New England but failed. New England, mainly carried out ...

The Articles of Confederation became the first official constitution of the USA. The document functioned from the 1781 to 1789 when the existing Constitution was ratified. The last document created stronger centralized government and marked the start of the separation of Democrats and Republicans. Moderate Republicanism became the main political system of the USA in the 19th century. Members of this movement agreed with Lincoln’s ideas about the restoration of the Union with seceded states, but on Congress plans. Moderate republicans could be called a “light version” of ordinary or radical Republicans. I think the Moderate Republicanism (or ...

Compose a complete 20-question citizenship exam as if you worked for the Bureau of Naturalization in 1918. In other words, for the purposes of the first part of this project, pretend that you are a native-born white male Protestant middle-class bureaucrat in 1918 who has the power to decide if an immigrant applicant has Americanized sufficiently to become a U.S. citizen. Your exam must capture the cultural values and core knowledge presented in Student’s Textbook (1918). Some but not all of your questions must concern history (i.e., the version of U.S. history presented in the 1918 textbook).

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1. Introduction Labor relations deal with the fair, effective, and professional relationship between the management and the employees. The labor relations cover employees union, labor laws, labor history, collective bargaining, settlement, and the contract administration. The labor unions are organizations in which people’s works together to achieve common goals. The unions are democratic bodies of employees. They are legally recognized as representative bodies of workers in many countries. The purpose of these organizations is to maintain and control working conditions in a better way. There are certain goals to organize labor unions that include protection of the rights ...

When Britain’s' thirteen colonies in North America took up arms against the mother country, the prospects of an independent nation demanded a new government for the free people. Notably, there was pressure to ensure that the new laws were democratic as opposed to the Monarchical rule exerted by the British on the colonists. Hence, in 1777, the Founding Fathers attempted a government based on the autonomy of the individual States by proposing the Articles of Confederation at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The Articles came into effect in 1781when the States ratified them but by 1789, the ...

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The history of football may be traced back to China in second century B.C. The sport was introduced in England in 1170 and was banned a couple of times between the 1400s and 1600s because it was associated with peasants and was thought to promote violence and immorality (FIFA, 2000). However, the sport later re-emerged and transcended social divide to become England’s favourite sport. The English have been considered to be very influential in popularizing football across the world. In 1867, the first football match outside Europe was recorded; the idea was initiated by several ...

The constitution emerged to create a structured society through the creation of a stable system of government and protection of individuals’ powers. It creates three branches of government with different responsibilities and mandates that complement each other in achieving the government objectives. The legislature has a responsibility of making laws, the executive implements the laws, while the judiciary undertakes their interpretation (Cox, 1987, p.42). The Constitution regulates the powers of these branches so that none is superior to the other, but rather work in harmony. It also outlines the powers of the federal government such as printing money, controlling ...

At early stages of the American Revolution, when the belief that the United States will continue to exist as an association of 13 sovereign political societies dominated, the Democrats gave priority to the constitutions of state. During the war for independence in a bitter struggle between opponents and supporters of states' rights, victory was on the side of decentralization supporters: a contractual agreement between the 13 provinces, known as the "Articles of Confederation", in 1781, consolidated the sovereignty of the states in all important areas of economic, social and political life (Jensen 15). “Articles of Confederation” was US very ...

When the American Revolutionary War began, the then thirteen North America colonies of the British Empire were in need of a different government that would replace that of the Monarch. The Founding Father’s first try in attempting to establish the territories’ self-governance produced the Articles of Confederation proposed to the Second Continental Congress in the year 1777 at Philadelphia. The States ratified the Articles and in 1781, the new laws were active. Still, by 1789, the United States Constitution was already in place as a replacement to the Articles and for that reason alone, it was evident that ...

The U.S. Articles of Confederation and Constitution

Articles of Confederation versus the Constitution of 1787 The 2nd article defines the sovereignty of the state which is fundamental to the new nation’s existence. At first glance, this may seem to go against the spirit of confederation but it actually stabilizes it by reiterating the foundation of the freedom of self-rule which was the basis of the revolution. While it accedes to aspects of federal rule that have been duly and clearly agreed among the states, the article establishes the natural state of the state to be free to conduct ...