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to me.

(remember all of these are just suggested topic sentences and places to find evidence, feel free to modify
and improve things.)

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ANGUS DO POLITICAL!

With the constitution, the political structure of the American central authority became much more
organized and centralized.

• Sections 2 and 3 of the Constitution discuss the implementation of a bicameral legislature where
there would be a House of Representatives and Senate. This addressed the political issue, which
was part of the Articles of Confederation, over how states should be represented. Articles of
Confederation States Rights Clause: “Article II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and
independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation
expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”

• The Articles of Confederation established the states as allies “The said States hereby severally
enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of
their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other,
against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion,
sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.” Whereas the Constitution was more adamant
on the formation of a central federal authority as evident in Article I Section I “All legislative
Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States”

• “The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year” “The Times, Places and Manner of
holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the
Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations”
This is what the constitution reads for meetings agreements. The Articles simply request “For the
most convenient management of the general interests of the united States, delegates shall be
annually appointed in such manner as the legislatures of each State shall direct, to meet in
Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State to
recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead
for the remainder of the year.”

CHRIS DO ECONOMIC!

Economically, the Congress gained extensive power to levy taxes and regulate commerce as they
previously had none.
 • “No State shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties,
entered into by the united States in congress assembled, with any King, Prince or State, in
pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress, to the courts of France and Spain.” AOC

• Constitution: “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and
Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the
United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign
Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule
of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United
States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of
Weights and Measures”

ERICA DO SOCIAL! (you may want to change the topic sentence on this just so that the evidence fits.)

The constitution had social ramifications in the sense that the interests of the upper classes were much
more protected than they were under the Articles of Confederation.

• “States in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and
fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens
in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from
any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the
same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that
such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any
State, to any other State, of which the owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition,
duties or restriction shall be laid by any State, on the property of the united States, or either of
them.”

• Constitution cant find :/