Constitution Era

Hey guys welcome back to another episode of Mishra Wealtha here today to help you review a little bit of the content regarding the Constitution era right which is time period right after the American Revolution as which kind of transitioning to become a new republic for more government those are kind of the main sort of themes that will tackle. Get hit a lot of stuff in class right of course your notes are number one I remember there's always also always the text you can access via campus if you need it and some of you also check it out the Amesco books so that works too but let's get going to get you hopefully better prepared. Okay so the key thing in the early kind of emphasis in this section right is the reliance of in the post-revolutionary years of the government that was created via the Articles of Confederation right which is our kind of government in transition or our wartime government during the American Revolution and again for those reasons right maybe never meant to be a permanent kind of fixture of the government right never meant to last forever but definitely did it stop to kind of hold things together while we dealt with you know of course the big conflict right versus Great Britain so excellent stuff. Okay some of the key weaknesses right back to go over all of them but it was extremely difficult to get new laws approved and even more difficult to get new or to get any changes or amendments done to the Articles government because it required those 13 out of 13 colonies to approve those amendments get powers of taxation right not allowed by this the Congress in particular right it instead it was those rights were reserved for those local assemblies though local governments were the only ones in issues regulating trade there was no such thing as an executive branch and in essence right the whole thing was a very weak central government kind of replaced by very strong local and state government was kind of the name of the game very again there is some good things that come about through the articles getting first of course gets us through the revolution and then passage of those land ordinances right in particular the 1787 Northwest ordinance which created a process process through which the Northwest Territory which today includes parts of Ohio all the way through Minnesota to get them to become a state also set important precedents right with having a bill of rights required or having bill of rights within their constitutions and banning the practice of slavery in these northern lands very good we talked about in class right the different benchmarks they had to reach they had to reach in order to start forming their government right which was 5,000 and then 60,000 is when they could finally apply for statehood after that our attention kind of went to Shays Rebellion right this you know it's kind of like minor but majoring its sort of outcome and the impact that I would have Rebellion and Western Massachusetts right in a lot of frustration dealing with the aftermath of the war lack of payments lack of benefits reaching some of our veterans from the American Revolution so you know it's just can happen at the perfect time right 1786 a lot of nervousness about the government and how the articles are working and or not working and Daniel Shays and his few hundred followers right when they start messing with the especially these courthouses right that were foreclosing a lot of their land and all that and then later on calling out the militia the service is a big kind of wake up call that you know there needs to be a better system in place system that allows the government the power to deal with Rebellions or unrest such as this so very very important get the aftermath of that right is of course the big meaning that is going to be called in Philadelphia which we know today is the constitutional convention right happens in 1787 and initially the meeting call to kind of address and fix the problems with the article's government but then later on you know through the kind of fluidity of the beginning of the meeting and they decided to keep things secret that they decide that they're going to create something altogether new in the U.S. Constitution it's been a lot of time on that but again just hit on the main things right keep mind things like those early plans like the Virginia New Jersey plans and you know interpreting your distinguishing between the two you know one of the big issues is going to be a portion of it right and you know who has say right what do you base representation on right is a population is it equality then eventually of course they're able to settle those issues also slavery right threatened to kind of undo and really divide the states before they could even really form a government but eventually through the three fifths compromise able to settle things down and to you know reach an acceptable kind of compromise for that issue very good after that again a lot of its kind of procedural or just kind of general stuff right about the structure of the Constitution it's relatively short right somewhere around 10,000 words of course the preamble is the intro you know give it mind those principles of the Constitution's right things such as popular sovereignty federalism checks and balances you know I get to know we hear these words over and over right as we're taught about government it was we're taught about the role of political science in general or just in political science but you know keep in mind some examples of how those things are you know put into effect right or practice throughout the years very good good other than that of course you know you have to keep mind the sort of rivalry between the anti-federalists and the federalists right what each side wanted right and the federalists really wanting a really strong central government to guide the country into the future and it was supported by most of our founding fathers and then but you said a very local anti-federalist group that was you know frustrated right I mean nobody's you're never going to keep everybody happy right but some people felt like there were certain things such as the Bill rights such as you know certain powers that should not be touched by this new federal government right the last thing they wanted to do was create something that just was England with another name right they were trying to avoid that as much as they could excellent so eventually getting they're able to get the necessary nine states to approve the new constitution right with the promise or agreement that you know James Madison would be adding those first 10 right those Bill rights as soon as possible so those really really key to selling this kind of division right and to get this new government in place very good so from here again we'll pick up with kind of the first administration right those first 10 years of government which will take us to those first two presidencies and some of the issues those those presidents are going to have to deal with thanks so much for your time and I hope this helps a little bit we'll see you in class talk to you later