U.S Constitution

Imagine that you just broke away from your parents' control, and are now free to live on your own with some roommates. What are the ground rules to be laid for your new place? This situation is similar to old U.S and the their rules for the U.S Constitution. In this essay you will be reading about why the U.S Constitution was written. Along with what the U.S Constitution is made up of, and who created it.

After the Revolutionary War in 1783, the 13 colonies first formed a very weak central government under the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was not strong enough to handle business matters with other governments and the Indians1. So the plan was to form a strong national government under a new constitution. Alexander Hamilton had suggested that a national convention was to happen in Philadelphia in 1786 to revise the Articles of confederation. Instead of revising the Articles of confederation the delegates came to an agreement, rather than revising they would just write a completely new plan of government, which would become the U.S Constitution. The writers of our Constitution wanted to make sure that the new nation and its citizens would be free and independent. They wanted to make sure that the government of the United States would protect the people from a government that was too powerful and from the domineering rule of kings (Britain). They didn't want the wishes of the people to be denied by any part of government or by the power of any single leader.

The first article of the U.S Constitution stated the powers of the three government branches, the legislative, executive, and the judicial. The Legislative branch makes the law, the executive branch enforces the law, and the judicial branch explains the law. The executive branch is represented by the President; the judicial by the Supreme Court. The Legislative branch is represented by Congress and is made up of two parts the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Legislative Branch includes the organization of Congress, the Houses job's, money and war-time jobs; Bills, powers granted to congress, powers forbidden to congress, and powers forbidden to states. The Executive branch includes what to do in any case regarding the President. For example it explains what to do when the President dies, impeached; and the terms of presidency. The Judicial branch states that the supreme power in the court system is the Supreme Court. The Constitution also includes relation of the states to each other. This means that a criminal fleeing from one state to another after crime, if detained, at the request of the executive authority of the state be returned to the state from which they fled. Then there's the Federal-State Relations, Amending the Constitution, National Debts, Supremacy; and Ratifying the Constitution.

The U.S Constitution was written by Gouverneur Morris; on September 17, 1787. The Constitution consists of a preamble, seven articles, and 26 amendments. Of Fifty-five delegates thirty-nine delegates signed the U.S Constitution, and is displayed in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. Signers of the Declaration of Independence also signed the U.S Constitution. Those signers were George Clymer, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin, George