Ap Government Chapter 2 Outline
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---> Delegates
- Patrick Henry of Virginia refused to be a delegate.
- Rhode Island sent no delegates
- Delegates were supposed to fix the Articles of Confederation
---> The Problem of Liberty
-American colonists were looking for civil liberties such as right to bring legal cases before an impartial judge and the right to not quarter soldiers.
---> The Colonial Mind
- Many colonists believed that men were greedy and easily corrupted.
- This was the colonists explanation for why the English constitution didn’t really guarantee liberties of citizens.
- Thomas Jefferson was the one who changed “property” to “the pursuit of happiness”
- In the late eighteenth century most Americans except slaves owned property.
- Jefferson wrote in 27 paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence his specific complaints about George III and his ministers.
- All of these complaints were about specific violations of political liberties.
- Unalienable- Based on nature and Providence rather than on the whims or preferences of people.
---> The Real Revolution
- The Real Revolution began before the war and continued even after the war.
- John Adams explained in a letter to a friend that the Real Revolution was “radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people.”
---> Weaknesses of the Confederation
- Articles of Confederation were put into effect in 1781.
- The Articles didn’t really create anything more than a “league of friendship.”
- Under the Articles of Confederation the government could not even levy taxes or regulate commerce.
- Each state only got one vote in Congress and nine out of thirteen votes were required to pass anything.
- Congress was allowed to make peace, coin money, appoint key army officials, and run the post office.
- No national judicial system.
- All thirteen states has to agree to amend the Articles of Confederation.
- A meeting of men at George Washington’s house at Mount Vernon in 1785 met to decide to call a meeting to discuss trade regulation.
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