Any one know the united states historical political systems after the revelution? in about 1783-1815?

Question

need it for my essay real bad

Answer 1

it was the Articles of Confederation.....it was the weakest document to run the political system...but then came the Constitution

Answer 2

The political structure of the United States at first, from 1781, when the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Unity were approved was a loose confederation of independent states who acted more like countries than a part of a nation that had the same values and goals. The "Federal" government consisted of a unicameral legislature that had no power other than to make war and even then it had no authority to raise the money necessary to prosecute the war. Instead it had to beg , shame and cajole the states into paying for an army that was bringing them their freedom.

When the war was over it just got worse. Now there was no unifying factor and even the congressmen began to bicker and be more surly than is usual for a politician. The country was going nowhere ... FAST. States were competing with each other like foreign countries. They were charging import and export taxes just for taking a few bushels of corn to the neighboring state to sell at the market. Each state was printing their own worthless currency and making up their own foreign relations strategy.

Then several of the gifted and ambitious men in the country go together and had a convention to fix the Articles of Confederation. Fortunately for you and I they didn't spend a minute actually trying to heal that ancient old nag that would never even be able to survive the operation.

Instead, in 1787 they came up with the US Constitution. They had enough political savvy to understand that it had to be the fairest document ever written because they knew they were going to have to get the people of those individual Nations/States to agree to give a great deal of their autonomy to the federal government. They knew that what the Constitution would have to return to we as the people of those states was a country that could

"form a more perfect union, establish justice and insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

Except for the fact that the most unfair thing about the constitution was that it did not resolve the issue of slavery it was the greatest document ever written by the hand of any mere man.

Even after 1815, when the War of 1812 ended (I guess they were trying to be optimistic by naming the war early), the Constitution was still very strong. It has been shaken up a few times and it has weathered some horrible storms but this document that has been the one thing that has bound every disparate part of this vast country together has only been changed 27 times in 230 years! AND ... ten of those changes were the Bill of Rights that was changed all at once in 1789!

That means that a document written 230 years ago has only been change once every 12.67 years (on average) while the word around us has changed more in the last ten years than it had in the thousands of years of recorded history before that.

We still live in a Republican (meaning a government for the public good, NOT the political party) political system even after all these years.

Amazing!

Hope that gets you started!

Answer 3

Look up the Articles of Confederation. Then look up the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 4

Why sure... I'd be happy to research this for you since you are obviously too lazy to look it up yourself... it will take a few days... and it will take about 200 typewritten pages, so I will have to FedEx it to you...