Essay - 1.-how did the American Colonial Experience and the Articles of...

1.-How did the American Colonial experience and The Articles of the Confederation influence the content ***** our Constitution?

***** American colonies existed as separate political entities. The only attempt to consolidate any of ***** colonies under one united government was that of the ill-fated "Dominion of New England," an attempt to reign in the independent colonies by a mon*****rchy (that of James II) that was thought by m***** to want to 'catholicize' ***** Anglican church in the late 1680's. Ad*****inistration had to be done at a local level because of the inferior condition ***** the roads. The advent of newspapers and printing presses in the mid-1700's was really the first non-commercial l*****k between colonies; often colonies had been openly hostile ***** one another. For instance, dissenters that disapproved of the government of Massachusetts founded Conneticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island. The consolidation or division of colonies, when it occurred, happened by skillful diplomacy in London as was ***** case when Massachusetts absorbed Plymouth Colony and Connecticut ***** ***** Haven. Wars w*****h Indian tribes and the French also brought colonies together. These created popular writers and diplomats that self-identified as be*****g '*****;' Ben Franlin was a writer and a diplomat. Finally disputes over taxation and the popularity of literature such as Common Sense and Poor Richard's Almanac. The crisis that demanded the replacement of the loosely confederated United States in ***** 1780's ***** Shay's Rebellion. The budget of the young Republic w***** created at ***** unanimous discretion of the state assemblies and had no taxing authority. When rebellions such as ***** Shays rebellion got out of hand, or ***** states such as Virginia and Maryland had contesting maritime rights or when the administration of the western territories was in dispute, a stronger ********** was needed.

2.- Identify 6 ways(3 of those founding fa*****rs who DID TRUST democracy, and 3 of ***** founding fathers who ***** TRUST democarcy)in which they built their views into the constitution.

The founding fathers were at ends with each other ***** debating the necessity of a ***** and its nature. Many did not trust ***** idea of democracy, and wished to restrain the power ***** the central g*****nment because ***** feared that it would increase taxation, especially taxation on imported goods. Because mercantile interests were heavily represented, the threat of protectionists voting for higher tariffs was underst*****able; the Articles ***** safe in that they had no power of taxation. Add*****ionally, some ***** that the interests of small states would be overlooked in the interest of the numerical majority, giving ***** and New York an enormous amount of *****. Thirdly, s*****hern plantation owners felt rightly threatened that a ***** republic*****n government might one day ban slavery in the south, as egalitarian fervor in ***** north ***** lead many ***** the states ***** liberate ***** slaves.

***** ***** other *****, there were fears raised by those that trusted democracy. Many feared (drawing on classical examples from Greece ***** Rome) the emergence of a demagogue as a king or tyrant