Constitutional Convention Argumentative Analysis
As a new generation take into place, new outcomes need to be face and the world need to be prepare with new rules, but this change depends upon you, the society, to become possible. The Constitutional Convention was created to fix the problems that was facing the Articles of Confederation were the thirteen states became a confederation with a weak central government that gave some of their powers to the national government. Delegates, people who represented what the society wants, decided to not only helped with the Articles of Confederation, but also propose a new American government. During the Constitutional Convention, delegates also discussed how much power should be giving to the people, national versus state government, big states versus
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To begin with, “two-thirds of the adults then living are now dead” (Jefferson, 1816). Which means that the majority of the people living during the time the Constitution was written are now dead. People during this generation should not be following the rules that were implemented to solve the problems of those who no longer exist. It is such as paying the consequences for a crime that was not committed or at least not by today’s generation. If life is moving on and people is working on evolution and innovation, why they have to be held back by the beliefs of people who are not even experiencing the world changes? It makes no sense. One example of the problems existing during the new American government was that the Continental Congress had trouble giving the supplies the army need throughout the Revolutionary War. Today, is known that the US Federal government spend 20 percent of the budget on defense, which is more than the percent other nations such as China, Russia, UK, France, and Japan spend. Another problem was that state governments were dominated by their legislatures. Today exist the check and balance by which each branch of the government: the executive-rule by the president, the legislative-rule by the congress, and judicial- rule by the Supreme Court, will check and balance the power of one another to avoid overpower. These examples provides the overview of an advance country, belonging to a new generation who does not carry on the problems of its ancestors. In addition, “we shall go on, as other nations are doing, in the endless circle of oppression, rebellion, reformation; and oppression, rebellion, reformation, again; and so on forever” (Jefferson, 1816). Meaning that the country needs to move forward and people (the society) need to make it happen. In each generation, if society is facing a
To begin with, “two-thirds of the adults then living are now dead” (Jefferson, 1816). Which means that the majority of the people living during the time the Constitution was written are now dead. People during this generation should not be following the rules that were implemented to solve the problems of those who no longer exist. It is such as paying the consequences for a crime that was not committed or at least not by today’s generation. If life is moving on and people is working on evolution and innovation, why they have to be held back by the beliefs of people who are not even experiencing the world changes? It makes no sense. One example of the problems existing during the new American government was that the Continental Congress had trouble giving the supplies the army need throughout the Revolutionary War. Today, is known that the US Federal government spend 20 percent of the budget on defense, which is more than the percent other nations such as China, Russia, UK, France, and Japan spend. Another problem was that state governments were dominated by their legislatures. Today exist the check and balance by which each branch of the government: the executive-rule by the president, the legislative-rule by the congress, and judicial- rule by the Supreme Court, will check and balance the power of one another to avoid overpower. These examples provides the overview of an advance country, belonging to a new generation who does not carry on the problems of its ancestors. In addition, “we shall go on, as other nations are doing, in the endless circle of oppression, rebellion, reformation; and oppression, rebellion, reformation, again; and so on forever” (Jefferson, 1816). Meaning that the country needs to move forward and people (the society) need to make it happen. In each generation, if society is facing a