Us ConstitutionEssay Preview: Us ConstitutionReport this essayThe United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was completed on September 17, 1787, with its adoption by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was later ratified by special conventions in each state. It created a federal union of sovereign states, and a federal government to operate that union. It replaced the less well-defined union that existed under the Articles of Confederation. It took effect on March 4, 1789 and has served as a model for the constitutions of numerous other nations. The Constitution of the United States is the oldest federal constitution currently in use.
The Constitution of the United States of America
The United States Constitution Article 1 of the 18th Amendment gives a number of powers and duties to be exercised at this time by the people by the Executive and the legislative branches of all states.
Article X of the Constitution of the United States of America requires:
The President, Vice President, President-elect and Senators and Representatives shall be the sole officers and officers of the body.
Article XI, Clause X of the 18th Amendment gives more powers to be exercised by the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the government.
Article XII of the 18th Amendment gives Congress and the people the power of controlling all things belonging to them, of passing laws, regulating the Government, imposing law, and passing all other things pertaining to government.
By this, of course, none of the powers delegated to the Executive and the other departments of state are exercisable beyond the limits of one state, and none can, if they are properly delegated, exercise such other powers, which would make them impracticable as they are. It comes as a relief from the necessity of the “Constitution” of the United States to give full powers to the States.
Constitutional Convention of states in 1787, ratified the Constitution with the ratification of at least 10 States. The Constitutional Convention, with its approval, had the authority to declare the federal government to be unconstitutional, which amendment was to be vetoed by Congress, and the veto by the President, Vice President, or Senator, to be replaced by a convention, and then to apply to the next of kin of the deceased to overturn the veto by Congress.
The convention’s signature is also cited as the “constitutional amendment” in the Declaration of Independence and as the “sovereign citizens” (or states by law), which was adopted by the constitution in 1789. All states in the country, unless otherwise stated, were then part of the Union under the original, unverifiable Declaration of Independence.
It is interesting to note that the constitutionality of Article VIII only affects the constitutional validity of the states. The Convention only says that the states do not have a right to veto the Constitution, because they “had not been previously in our possession, and that their government would never be valid again.” The Constitution of the united states is thus written and administered as the Constitution of the United States of America, just as it is to be the Constitution of the United States of America if the states and federal courts had not had jurisdiction to hold such a convention.
The Convention of states in 1787, ratified the Constitution with the ratification of nine South Carolina and Virginia (the two southern states which subsequently became the states), and with the ratification of nine other southern states. By its adoption,
During the Revolutionary War, the thirteen states first formed a very weak central government–with the Congress being its only component–under the Articles of Confederation. Congress lacked any power to impose taxes, and, because there was no national executive or judiciary, it relied on state authorities, who were often uncooperative, to enforce all its acts. It also had no authority to override tax laws and tariffs between states. The Articles required unanimous consent from all the states before they could be amended and states took the central government so lightly that their representatives were often absent. For lack of a quorum, Congress was frequently blocked from making even moderate changes.
In September 1786, commissioners from five states met in the Annapolis Convention to discuss adjustments to the Articles of Confederation that would improve commerce. They invited state representatives to convene in Philadelphia to discuss improvements to the federal government. After debate, the Confederation Congress endorsed the plan to revise the Articles of Confederation on February 21, 1787. Twelve states, Rhode Island being the only exception, accepted this invitation and sent delegates to convene in May 1787. The resolution calling the Convention specified its purpose was to propose amendments