Essay - Revolutionary Era by the Late 1780's Many Americans Had Grown...

Revolutionary Era

By the late 1780's many Americans had grown dissatisfied with ***** Confederation. It was unable to deal effectively with economic problems and weak in the face of Shay's Rebellion. A decade earlier, *****mericans had deliberately avoided creating a strong national government. Now they reconsidered. In 1787, the nation produced a new constitution ***** a new, much more powerful government with three independent branches. The government the Constitution produced has survived far more than two centuries as one of the most stable and most successful in the world.

The Articles ***** ***** and ***** Constitution resembled each other in some c*****es and differed from ***** other greatly in other aspects. The Articles of Confederation were a foundation for the Constitution, and sometimes even called the Pre-Constitution. ***** Confederation, which existed from 1781 until 1789, ***** not a big suc*****s. It l*****cked power to deal with interstate issues, ***** enforce its will on states, and had little stature in ***** eyes ***** the world. It was time for a revision, a new perspective, and a radical change in our government system. However, the principles ***** guided the crafting of the Declaration of Independence ***** those same ideals which Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, ***** o*****rs used to write the Constitution.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ***** among these ***** Life, Li*****rty and the pursuit ***** Happiness."1 Never be*****e has such a bold ********** been pushed forward as the re*****on for a peoples' existence. Thom*****s Jefferson's declaration, ***** ***** ***** the path of this nation through two hundred years of unique existence is that we ***** the truth to be self-evident, that all *****, (and women) are ***** equal, and endowed ***** there ***** with ***** undeniable rights, among which are life, li*****rty, ***** the pursuit ***** happiness.

In ***** day, the cost of his actions, and those who agreed with him, was high. Their final personal covenant is represented in ***** final words of the timeless document ***** guides ***** nation. "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protecti***** of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, ***** Fortunes and our sacred Honor." During the ensuing revolutionary war, their property was destroyed, homes ***** plantations burned, because they made the audacious assertion that ***** were 'equal.'

This American spirit lays ***** foundation of the *****. The main goal of ***** document was to create a strong, effective central *****, while at ***** same time maintaining the individual rights of every man to be free from encroachment of a federal system which *****y ***** just defeated in the Revolutionary *****. This was a revolutionary undertaking in and of itself. The settlers of the ***** ***** came from a wide background. Some came to America seeking *****dom ***** worship without government interference. ***** came to the new world as businessmen, intending to start new enterprises, and