Us Constitution Dbq Essay

The US Constitution Our nation was anxious and ready for complete freedom. When the final signature was done our nation was finally by itself. 1787 was the end of something dreadful and the beginning of something great. In the summer of 1787 the delegates from every state gathered in Philadelphia to sign the US Constitution. What did the US Constitution create in means of principles for the US government? Three basic principles created by the US Constitution were separation of power, federalism, and individual compromise. One of the principles created by the US Constitution was the separation of powers. Separation of powers basically means that the government has different groups of and each group has a certain job. Each groups job is no more important than others, so for one to work you have to have another to either back it up or help construct it. In document F it is giving each branch a certain responsibility for it to take care of and run. It also states what that responsibility means and what it will contribute to the governmental system. separating the offices is done so that one form of government(judicial, executive, legislative) doesn't have more

Federalism in the US Constitution is giving the states certain power over their states and a certain say in what goes on in their country and then giving the nation limits and jobs and what they are allowed to do to change what the US has going on at the time. Throughout this document(Doc B) I noticed how it is constantly saying how the government isn’t thinking of the people as they set laws and make decisions. This is what started the Revolutionary war in the first place, they wanted more say in their government which was practically run by Great Britain. Now they are basically doing the same exact thing, as Paulo Freire once said “The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become