Democratic Vs. Conservative Constitution
Following the American Revolution, the United States were stuck in quite an undesirable situation. The situation was that they did not have a government to live or grow under. This problem was readily and quickly solved though with the creation of the Articles of Confederation. For nearly ten years, the Articles were in place as the first government to unite the United States. Through time though, the Articles of Confederation proved to not be as effective as they were when first created. Great weaknesses in broad areas the documents helped to spawn disastrous rebellions within the developing country. Surprisingly enough, at this early point in America's history, signs of revolution began sweep the nation. Luckily enough though, America's founders were able to recognize their mistakes and understand that something had to be done to either revise the Articles of Confederation or start from scratch and form a totally new constitution. Ultimately, their decision was to, at a constitutional convention, create a totally new constitution for the well-being of the United States of America. Eventually, after much deliberation and attempts at ratification, on June 21, 1788#, the laws of the constitution that were created came int
Democracy in the United States Constitution comes in different forms, but most likely not as many as one would expect. The men that created the constitution wanted to shy away from making it democratic because a democracy would leave too much power in the hands of the people. One aspect of the constitution that was at best semi- democratic was the election of the president. To elect the president, nearly all property owning men or those who were important businessmen, such as merchants or lawyers, were allowed to vote in the presidential elections. Allowing for everyone to vote, in many ways, could not be more democratic. It allows for everyone to have their say in who they want as their leader, and for the most part, makes everyone happy with their government. The single problem with this though, that almost fully takes away from the democratic aspect of the election, is that the actual votes that come from the regular civilian voters actually mean little or nothing in the end results of the election. What actually does count in the election are the votes that come from the electoral college. The college is a quite complicated scheme in which each state is awarded a number of votes that are equivalent to a states representation in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.# This departure from the original idea of a Direct Democracy, for many, was unjustifiable, but for the constitutional convention, this was just what they wanted to keep the people from holding too much power and possibly making a terrible mistake for a leader in an election. To further demonstrate that the constitution is a more conservative document than democratic one, Charles Bea
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