The Constitution

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Term Paper Title	The Constitution
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The Constitution

With the Constitution the elite society protected rights for every American that would secure and ensure our nation’s existence for hundreds of years.  Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States’ government was in a state of chaos.  To end the existing chaos and build a stronger democratic society for the future, the government would need to be more powerful and centralized.  Thus, the elite class established the rules and boundaries that would protect the rights of all citizens from a suppressive government.
     The Articles created a weak, almost non-existent government had neither an executive or judicial branch, which meant that it lacked enforcement powers.  The newly formed government had neither and executive or judicial branch, which meant that it lacked enforcement powers.   There were three problems that existed under the Articles of Confederation that would spawn and act of change.  First, under the Articles of Confederation the government could not protect property and other rights of the citizens.  Second, the society created under the Articles of Confederation lacked a means of advancing commerce and interstate trade.  Third, government lacked the money and power to provide and adequate national defense (Dye 65-66).
     Traders and commercial men found their plans for commerce on a national scale impeded by local interference with interstate commerce.  The currency of the states and the nation were hopelessly muddled.  Creditors everywhere were angry about the depreciated paper money, which the agrarians had made and were attempting to force upon those whom they had borrowed specie.  Poor, small landowning farmers could not sell or trade goods that they produced on their land to other states.
     The “muddled currency” in 1786, led to the loss of land in Massachusetts.  During this time Continental army veterans were unable to pay their debts with the paper money that they were supplied with by the Continental Congress.  This bankruptcy led to the loss of land and a great rebellion led by Daniel Shays.  The Shay’s rebellion was ended easily enough but it was the lack of national government that frightened people.  Had Daniel Shays gathered a larger number of people and had more firepower the small amount of farmers and townspeople might not have been able to squash this rebellion.  Anarchy in the States could not be tolerated (ShaysNet).
     However it was James Madison that stated that the way to abolish the rule by facti...

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