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A 5 page paper which examines various Constitutional crises in the United States during the 18th and 19th century as seen through an examination of the amendments to the Constitution. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in interpretation of some of its phrases, but also between the loose constructionists and strict constructionists" (Answers.com, 2005). As such there have clearly been "crises" associated with the Constitution of
the United States in the first hundred years of its existence. The following paper examines some of the crises involved with the Constitution from 1787 to 1877 as seen primarily
though the various amendments. The paper then argues that the most important crisis may well have been the one surrounding the Civil War when many southern states ceded and Lincoln
desired a solid union, often going against the Constitution in getting a strong union. Constitutional Crises The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments and these serve
as the original and the foundational components of the Constitution of the United States. This Bill of Rights is perhaps the first true crisis involving the Constitution because although the
Constitution was in place many people wanted to revise and add a Bill of Rights, which all constitutions possessed in terms of giving the people individual rights (Mount, 2005). Even
those first ten amendments possessed some controversy as there were originally 17, which the Senate reduced to 12 in 1789 (Mount, 2005). The states had to approve them and it
took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concerns emerged more and more amendments were created
in order to address particular crises involving the Constitution. The 11th amendment involves a crisis wherein it was felt that officials had overstepped their constitutional boundaries and thus this amendment,
"limits the jurisdiction of the federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a state by the citizens of another state" (Mount, 2005). The 12th amendment concerns political parties. When
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