please describe the structure of the early American government around the time of the Constitution?

Answer 1

Time for you to do the assigned reading and your own homework. Do not rely on second hand information. Do your own research so you will know what you are talking about.

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Answer 2

That depends on whether "around the time of the Constitution" means before or after the Constitution was ratified.

Before the ratification of the Constitution, the U.S. government operated under a system known as the Articles of Confederation. The central government was very weak, with individual states retaining the vast majority of political power. The central government had no executive branch, no judicial branch, and only a very weak legislature. The legislature was a single chamber, in which each state possessed one vote. Nine of the thirteen states had to vote in favor of a piece of legislation in order for it to pass, and all thirteen states had to vote in favor of any proposed amendment to the Articles of Confederation. The central government was so weak that it lacked even the power to collect taxes.

After the Constitution was ratified, the U.S. government took on the structure it still has today.