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STUMBLING INTO CONFEDERACY

STUMBLING INTO CONFEDERACY. POPULAR SOVREIGNTY AND MASS. . MASS . DEVELOPS MODEL FOR CONSTITUTION MAKING – THAT OTHER STATES ADOPT. STUMBLING INTO CONFEDERACY . CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CREATED TO PROSECUTE THE WAR… (1 ST /2 ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS )

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STUMBLING INTO CONFEDERACY

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  1. STUMBLING INTO CONFEDERACY

  2. POPULAR SOVREIGNTY AND MASS. • MASS. DEVELOPS MODEL FOR CONSTITUTION MAKING – THAT OTHER STATES ADOPT

  3. STUMBLING INTO CONFEDERACY • CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CREATED TO PROSECUTE THE WAR… (1ST/2ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS) • DICKINSON (PA) PRESENTS PLAN FOR STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN 1776…

  4. CONGRESS DRAFTS THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION • SHOWS LEGITIMACY OF GOVERNMENT TO FRENCH… • ADOPTED BY CONGRESS 1777 • RATIFICATION ISSUES: • Western lands • Maryland • 1781

  5. THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION • COLONIAL EXPERIENCES WITH GOVERNMENT…

  6. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE (1787) • ISSUE: WHAT WILL CREATE THE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN LANDS? • (REMEMBER THE TREATY OF PARIS - 1783) • LAND SOLD TO LAND SPECULATORS… • 6 MILLION ACRES - LITTLE MIGRATION • CONGRESS REASSERTS AUTHORITY – CREATION OF ORDINANCE IN 1787 • CREATION OF TERRITORIES AND PROCESS FOR STATEHOOD – TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS APPOINTED BY CONGRESS • 60,000 NEEDED FOR STAEHOOD • ONLY MANAGED LANDS NORTH OF OHIO RIVER…

  7. FEDERAL AUTHORITY AND THE ARTICLES… • PROBLEMS • EMPTY TREASURY • ECONOMIC ISSUES • NO PWER TO TAX • NO NATIONAL ARMY • NO JUCICIAL/EXECUTIVE

  8. Triston Dalton in a letter to John Adams… “No people ever had a fairer opportunity to be what they have anxiously wished to be…”

  9. EXTREME NATIONALISTS AND THE NEWBURGH CONSPIRACY • CONGRESS CAN’T PAY SOLDIERS’ WAGES (NO TAXATION) • FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES • BRITAIN • SPAIN • JAY TREATY

  10. MOVING TOWARDS NATIONALISM • SHAY’S REBELLION

  11. CHANGE NEEDED • MADISON AND DOGMA OF REPUBLICANISM

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