Evaluating The Constitution: Creating The Articles Of Confederation

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Creating the Constitution

A new framework of government must be created to replace the the Articles of Confederation because it was shown ineffective due to Daniel Shays’ rebellion.

Benjamin Franklin encouraged every member of the Constitutional Convention to sign their names on the Constitution at the very last meeting.

Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, could not collect or impose taxes, hence they could not raise a national army to defend the country.

The Delegates from Rhode Island boycotted the Constitutional Convention because they were afraid of a strong national government. They described themselves as “the home of the otherwise minded”.

Electing governors of choice was a right the people had under a government of democracy, as the …show more content…
Patriots had risked their lives to fight for freedom and they were able to win the Revolutionary War, which leads to the making of the Constitution.

Questions rose about the fairness of the system in which Congress gave each state one vote because each some states had a dense population of slaves while some had little to none. Should they all be considered equal?

The Rule of Secrecy is a promise among the members of the Constitutional Convention to not speak of anything about the meeting to others until their jobs were accomplished.

Shays’s rebellion startled Congress and made them come to realize that a nation made of many groups needed a strong central government or else it would fall apart.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise proposed by James Madison in which slaves are counted as three-fifths of a person to settle the disagreement of how they should be counted when determining a state’s population.

The United States is made of many states varying human geographically and physically, making it hard for Americans to decide what form of government they should
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