I can describe how the national government was created and explain the difficulties the founding fathers faced throughout the process.


  1. What were some struggles faced by our founding fathers while creating the new government?
  1. What were the major issues debated by our founding fathers while creating the new government?
  1. Describe the process of the ratification. What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention throughout that process?
  1. What were the arguments for adding the Bill of Rights?

5.How did the Constitution reflect American ideals of democracy?

Some struggles would be getting everyone into the same room, everyone had different religious ideals, so getting everyone to agree on something caused problems because they all believed differently, and different states had different wants and needs.

"Four of the five states to first ratify were small states that stood to benefit from a strong national government that could restrain abuses by their larger neighbors."

The process of ratification is the process of approval by the states one by one. It started in Pennsylvania and was a big mess because no one would agree.

"The ratification process started when the Congress turned the Constitution over to the state legislatures for consideration through specially elected state conventions of the people."

16c. The Ratification Process: State by State. (2017) American history from pre-columbian to the new millennium. Link: http://www.ushistory.org/us/16c.asp

16c. The Ratification Process: State by State. (2017) American history from pre-columbian to the new millennium. Link: http://www.ushistory.org/us/16c.asp

The major issues were that the smaller states wanted a fair system so they would have representation compared to the bigger states. The other major issue was that the anit-federalists waned a stronger state government while the federalists wanted a stronger national government.

"Since the new proposal increased the power of the national government at the expense of state sovereignty, it was a certainty that one, and probably several more, state legislatures would oppose the changes."

  1. Ratifying the Constitution (2017) American history from pre-columbian to the new millennium.
    Link: http://www.ushistory.org/us/16.asp

An argument for the bill of rights is that the states and the people didnt want the governmetn to haev too much power, and they did not want to end up with a king again. The people wanted representation.

" Why, then, had the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention not included a bill of rights in their proposed Constitution? Most Anti federalists thought that such protections were not granted because the Federalists represented a sinister movement to roll back the gains made for ordinary people during the Revolution"

16b. Antifederalists (2017) American history from pre-columbian to the new millennium
Ljnk:http://www.ushistory.org/us/16b.asp

The people of america and the states all wanted to have a say in their new government. So the constitution reflected this because it gave the people rights and it gave them a voice in their new government.

¨In many respects this compromise reflected a victory for small states, but compared with their dominance in the Congress under the Articles of Confederation it is clear that negotiation produced something that both small and large states wanted.¨

15d. Constitution Through Compromise (2017) American history from pre-columbian to the new millennium
Link: http://www.ushistory.org/us/15d.asp