Constitution?

Question

How did the constitution make the weak government stronger?

THE USA CONSTITUTION

Answer 1

Linda S has her time line a little out of order. At the time of the Convention the Revolutionary war was over and the Treaty of Peace was signed. There could be no treason to the crown because Great Britain had already ceded the victory to the government of the States United under the Articles of Confederation.

It didn’t make a weak government stronger, it created a new government with a different intent and powers.

The general government which was created by the Articles of Confederation came about due to a common need among the various States to fight a war. That is, they needed a structure (the Articles of Confederation) to work together. With the winning of the revolution those Articles were not designed to support a country at peace and some changes were required. Individuals in the States didn’t all agree as to the best course of action. One attempt to come together to alter the Articles of Confederation to better fit peace time failed to draw enough support to meet. After much political give and take nearly all States agreed to at least meet to discuss the possibility of such alterations.

Only 12 of the then States agreed to such a meeting with Rhode Island never attending. Of the others not all agreed on a course of action. Some agreed that some relatively minor changes to the Articles of Confederation would be acceptable. Some would have been just as happy to see each State to fully accept their position (as agreed to in the Treaty of Peace) of being Free, Independent and Sovereign, with not general government. Others (led by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison) that a new country be developed with a much stronger general government founded in a new Constitution. It was (as we all know) this latter direction which resulted from the Convention.

It was a near thing that the Constitution was actually developed in the Convention and finally proposed to the Congress Assembled and it was no sure thing that the Congress would propose it to the States (and in fact they didn’t but rather made it available, with no recommendation, to the States to ratify or reject). The ratification process was almost didn’t pass through the States.

What the new Constitution did was to create a new general (federal) government and to define it with specifically dedicated powers (primarily Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 through 18) with which the federal government could operate on its own without State sanction for individual acts. With these powers was an implied sovereignty limited to and supportive of implementation of these delegated powers.

It might also be mentioned that the Bill of Rights was not part of the Constitution or its ratification. Rather, such became one of the first acts of Congress and it too was fought over during its ratification process. It was with the 14th Amendment that these articles of the Bill of Rights (originally applied only to the federal government) were applied to the States and this began the erosion of the Founders' intent and made it possible for major intrusion of the federal government into affairs of the States and the rights of the individual.

Answer 2

Basically the only thing that in the least brought more responsibility to a federal government was the fact that the Constitution allowed a congress to tax ONLY for the purposes of
1. National Defense
2. Police protection
3. Public works...

Alas we now operate so far from the Constitution...entitlements and welfare..government programs

Answer 3

The Constitution did not make the weak Government stronger!!!

The men who drafted the Constitution did so in secret. If they had been found out they would have been shot as traitors to the crown. We then had the American revolution and became our own country and the Constitution was implemented into our new Government as a way of making sure that we stayed a free country

Answer 4

What country are you talking about. The UK has NO OFFICIAL constitution.