at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, then known as the Pennsylvania State House.

There the delegates amended the Articles of Confederation. Four questions proved far

more difficult to resolve: conflicts over how the people were to be represented in

Congress, what to do about slavery, the powers of the president and the procedures for

election to the office; and the powers and functions of the federal courts. The delegates

settled most of the scores of issues quickly. They then created a new Constitution, a plan

of government designed to solve the governmental problems caused under the Articles of

Confederation. Since they made such a flexible document it still continues to guide this

Right to speedy fair trial(1791), Abolition of Slavery (1865), Women’s Suffrage (1920),

30 amendments stating what people can and can not do. Its basically a set of rules that

constitution, was provided with a veto over federal laws. The Constitution divides

power through the separation of powers. In document #4 it talks about the system of

Constitution has served to moderate change in the United States and continues to do so

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Articles Confederation, Bill Rights, Due Constitution’s, Marbury Madison, Eighteen-year-old Vote, Constitutional Convention, Searches Seizures, Women’s Suffrage, Pennsylvania House, federal government, Presidential Terms, articles confederation, powers federal, powers federal government, judicial branch,