Ashley+Francello


 * Ashley Francello **

I found this website, http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/chart.art.html, that had a chart comparing and contrasting the Articleds of Confederation and the Constitution.


 * || **Articles of Confederation** || **Constitution** ||
 * Levying taxes || Congress could request states to pay taxes || Congress has right to levy taxes on individuals ||
 * Federal courts || No system of federal courts || Court system created to deal with issues between citizens, states ||
 * Regulation of trade || No provision to regulate interstate trade || Congress has right to regulate trade between states ||
 * Executive || No executive with power. President of U.S. merely presided over Congress || Executive branch headed by President who chooses Cabinet and has checks on power of judiciary and legislature ||
 * Amending document || 13/13 needed to amend Articles || 2/3 of both houses of Congress plus 3/4 of state legislatures or national convention ||
 * Representation of states || Each state received 1 vote regardless of size || Upper house (Senate) with 2 votes; lower house (House of Representatives) based on population ||
 * Raising an army || Congress could not draft troops, dependent on states to contribute forces || Congress can raise an army to deal with military situations ||
 * Interstate commerce || No control of trade between states || Interstate commerce controlled by Congress ||
 * Disputes between states || Complicated system of arbitration || Federal court system to handle disputes ||
 * Sovereignty || Sovereignty resides in states || Constitution the supreme law of the land ||
 * Passing laws || 9/13 needed to approve legislation || 50%+1 of both houses plus signature of President ||

The Constitution had many compromises and plans.
 * Compromises
 * Connecticut Compromise
 * Is also known as the Great Compromise
 * It was an agreement between the large and small states would have equal power under the Constitution
 * Happened at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787
 * The Three-Fifths Compromise
 * Agreement that also occured at the Philadelphia Convenction
 * It was between the Northern and Southern States over slavery and how the distribrution of taxes would occur and an agreement about the memembers of the United States House of Representives in slaved states
 * Finally decided that slaves count as 3/5 of a person
 * Commerce and Slave Trade compromise
 * arguement- should Congress be able to regulate trade and weather or not slave trading should be continued in the United States
 * North: wanted Congress to control trade and end slavery
 * South: did not really care about the control of trade, even though they relied on it and wanted to keep slavery
 * Final agreement was to control trade and to end slavery in the United states
 * There were also several other compromises made for the Constitution
 * Tariffs and Executive Elections were also compromises at this time
 * Plans
 * Virginia Plan (1787)
 * It was the plan that set the over all idea of the debate for the Philadelphia Convection
 * Was mainly written by James Madison and would become the outline for the Constitution
 * Three branchs- legislative, executive, and judicial
 * Legislative more powerful
 * Bicameral
 * Over all accepted and used to make the U.S.Constitution
 * New Jersey Plan
 * Was made two hours after the Virginia Plan but was not accepted and later denied
 * Also had three branchs- legislative, executive, and judicial
 * but all had equal power
 * Unicameral