The Contitution

• seperation of chruch and state
• "VA statue for religious freedom" by Thomas Jefferson
• Anglican church became Episcopal church

Homemaker and mothers

• civic virtue
• mothers

the unselfish commitment of each citizen to the public good

during the war

on the people

• modeled constitutions after charters with England
• a bill of rights
• an annual election of legislatures

• John "Nolichuchy Jake"
• paid in whiskey and pelts

• the 1st constitution
• John Dickenson

for treason becasue he thought about an alliance with spain

• loose confederation
• congress is the cheif agency of gov't
• no executive branch
• judiciary left to states
• each state had a single vote
• Bills of importance needed 2/3 vote

• no power to regulate commerce
• couldn't force tax collection
• couldn't force states to vote?

• model for what a loose confederation ought to be
• kept alive the idea of a union
• dealt with western lands effeciency

provided orderly settlement in the Northwest

• 1) Tmporary Guardship
• -forbade slavery
• -subordinate to federal power
• -approved by congress
• 2) Permanent Equality
• -basic principle for settling rest of west

John Adams

if Vermont could become a state

• they hoped america would fail
• to uphold france incase of attack
• americans didnt carry out treaties regaurding torries and debts

Spain

they were openly unfriendly to them

• "No Right of Deposit"
• right for americnas to deposit goods on land and get them to sea vessels

repayment of loans during war

farmers began losing land because of bank foreclosures

• many people feared mob activity
• cry for stronger central government

wanted to preserve wealth and position

maybe we could just change a little

the incident at the potomac river lead to the Annapolis convention got the men thinking that maybe some changes were needed, thus, the constitution convention was held

G. Washington

Alexander Hamilton

• T. Jefferson (France)
• J. Adams (England)
• T. Paine (France)

• Samual Adams (not elected)
• John Hancock
• Patrick Henry "I smell a rat" (believed in states rights)

couldn't get an army to control it

• aka Large State Plan
• Led by James Madison
• strong central gov't w/ 3 branches
• bicameral legislature based on population
• broad authority to national gov't
• could negate state laws

• aka Small State Plan
• Led by William Paterson
• unicameral congress
• equal representation
• -regardless of size and population
• -less redical

• Executive (President) would serve for life
• would have veto power over all laws

• large states- represented by poplulation in house
• small states- equal representation in senate
• all tax bills must originate in house

• south wanted to count slaves as citizens
• slaves counted as 3/5 of a person in house of represenatives

• independent executive branch
• president- military commander-in-cheif
• veto power in legislation
• strong central government 3 branches
• checks and balances among the branches
• federal judges added for life

• 1) the only legitimite gov't is based on consent of the governed
• 2) pwers of gov't should be limited

the ratification of consitution

• Conservative
• closely akine to loyalist of Revoluvtion days

the ratification of the constitution

• no strong central gov't
• states rights
• didn't like standing army
• didn't like omission of reference to God

• backcountry
• poor
• feared aristocrats
• less educated

• John Jay (1st cheif Justice)
• Alexander Hamilton
• James Madison (wrote best commentary ever written on the constitution)

• a collection of 85 essays
• signed name Publius
• #10 most famous

militant minority of conservatives