Constitutional Convention which wrote the U.S. Constitution. In addition to these awe-inspiring achievements, which created a strong foundation for America, he became the country’s first presidential leader. What made the two previous achievements awe inspiring? George Washington was born on Pope’s Creek Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22, 1732. He was the son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington.
The Legacy of Colonial America Beginning in the early seventeenth century, there were many people that came to the Americas, whether it be for freedom of religious practice or the thought of striking wealth. The colonists in Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay influenced and continue to influence our nation today due to the events and actions that they participated in during the early 1600s. America’s roots as one nation were founded on the beliefs of the early settlers in the colonies. In both the United States government and practice of law, these values show how not only the colonists influenced the early world, but how it has for better or worse changed how we as one nation operate today. One colonial ideal that is still present in today’s nation is the idea of helping others in need.
1st paragraph Main function – legislature The Philadelphia Convention 1787 gave Congress the power of being the primary law making body in the US. Members of Congress formulate and pass laws, it is an important actor in the policy process as it was intended that Congress should initiate any undertaking of government
Madison and the other 56 delegates gathered in Philadelphia in May 1787. They planned to amend the Articles of Confederation. They ended up creating a new constitution, and Madison became the chief recorder of information. He had previously helped create Virginia’s constitution, thus he understood the process of creating a constitution more than the other delegates who didn’t have as much experience. Madison strongly encouraged a strong central government.
American Government was influenced greatly by the ideas of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment ideas helped open people’s minds to a new way of thinking and not to except the ways of the past. Many people spoke out towards their ideas during the Enlightenment, and many became well-known. Those same people helped influence the American Government. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution established the many ideas borrowed from the Enlightenment.
The Articles of Confederation was the first Constitution for the United States. It was drafted by the 2nd Continental Congress in 1777; it was then signed and accepted in 1781 by thirteen states. (Goldfield 176) The Articles gave the state governments more independent strength, while leaving the central government greatly undermined. The Articles were a stepping stone which led to the Constitution, however; the Articles contained stronger limitations than it provided strengths for the central government. Many problems came to attention immediately, due to the rules and regulations set forth by the Confederation.
“By the 1760’s the colonist had come to believe that in America they were creating a place that adopted the best of the English system but adapted it to new circumstances; a place where a person rise by a merit, not birth; a place where men could voice their opinions and actively share in self-government”(McCarthy). The transformation from English common law to a new American common law was officially started with the Declaration of Independence. The foundation of America law consists of three very important documents; the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights. Even though the Bill of Rights is technically part of the Constitution since it consists of the first ten amendments, most people consider it to be its own document. This new American law that was developed was based on the ideals of the settlers but was also greatly influenced by English law.
Religion has been a fundamental component in every colonization known to man since the Garden of Eden. In fact, one is hard pressed to find a culture where the act of utilizing the principle of religion as a cornerstone is not employed. However it was upon the virgin soil of America that Religion made one of its most indelible conquests. Religious conviction played a vital role in all of the continent's fledgling settlements, but particularly in two colonies did religion, unequivocally, have the most radically different effect. It was religion that drove the New England colony and Middle Atlantic colony down two starkly opposite paths, but one was a religion of uniformity and government by God, and the other, a religion promising exactly the opposite.
Manifest Destiny will Always Exist “Manifest Destiny -- a phrase used by leaders and politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion by the United States -- revitalized a sense of 'mission' or national destiny for Americans.” [1] The reason why settlers moved to the New World was to live in freedom and start a new life with no restrictions. As settlers saw the opportunity of taking land and realizing their dream, more settlers moved to the New World. “Groups in England and Europe were quick to capitalize in the dreams of land, profit, power, and political and religious refuge that America represented.”[2] People had their “Land of Opportunity”; they could start from the beginning. They had to develop their own rules and politics. The US was built out of their dream with freedom as basic part.
“The English language was the fundamental underpinning of the cultural legacy that was bestowed on American society. It became the acceptable written spoken language for the building of the nations-state and county, and it represented the standards for creating ethnic identity in colonial America. English became the institutional language of education and religion. Soon the