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This 3 page paper considers the period following the Revolutionary War and the factors that combined to inspire the writing of the US Constitution. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: AM2_PpusConstShay.rtf
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had just won our independence from Great Britain yet we were facing some of the most desperate economic times we had ever experienced. Our fledgling nation was left without
an executive branch, its governmental bodies loosely organized in prevailing state institutions. The fledgling states had a large role to undertake. The complexities of the previous colonial administration had
been quite elaborate and the states were left in a tenuous position of having to firmly administer those aspects of government of the new colonies. Not only were
the states left to fulfill the role that had once been played by colonial powers, they also were left with the responsibilities of the revolutionary committees of correspondence and public
safety, were expected to do the prosecutorial "cleanup" of what remained of evacuating the British from the countries borders, and administer vast reaches of territory which included responsibility for
public life within the numerous cities and towns within each state border. The predominant view of the time was to have the states temporarily oversee many governmental functions
which the weakened and disorganized national system of government was not yet capable of handling. An obvious shortcoming, of course, was that neither the federal government nor the states
had any monies to pay for all of these duties. We didnt even have an actual Constitution. Instead we only had our Articles of Confederation and that didnt
allow for federal taxation. The states, in contrast, were allowed to collect taxes from their citizens and many took this right a little too far. Many, in fact,
were quite heavy handed in their taxation. Such was certainly the case in Massachusetts. That state had been hit particularly hard by the split from England because its
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