STUMBLING INTO CONFEDERACY

STUMBLING INTO

CONFEDERACY

POPULAR SOVREIGNTY AND MASS.

• MASS. DEVELOPS MODEL FOR CONSTITUTION MAKING – THAT OTHER STATES ADOPT

STUMBLING INTO CONFEDERACY • CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

CREATED TO PROSECUTE THE WAR… (1ST/2ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS)

• DICKINSON (PA) PRESENTS PLAN FOR STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN 1776…

CONGRESS DRAFTS THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

SHOWS LEGITIMACY OF GOVERNMENT TO FRENCH…

ADOPTED BY CONGRESS 1777

RATIFICATION ISSUES: • Western lands • Maryland • 1781

THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

COLONIAL EXPERIENCES WITH GOVERNMENT…

THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE (1787)

ISSUE: WHAT WILL CREATE THE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN LANDS? • (REMEMBER THE TREATY OF PARIS - 1783)

LAND SOLD TO LAND SPECULATORS… • 6 MILLION ACRES - LITTLE MIGRATION

• CONGRESS REASSERTS AUTHORITY – CREATION OF ORDINANCE IN 1787

• CREATION OF TERRITORIES AND PROCESS FOR STATEHOOD – TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS APPOINTED BY CONGRESS

• 60,000 NEEDED FOR STAEHOOD

• ONLY MANAGED LANDS NORTH OF OHIO RIVER…

FEDERAL AUTHORITY AND THE ARTICLES…

PROBLEMS•EMPTY TREASURY•ECONOMIC ISSUES•NO PWER TO TAX•NO NATIONAL ARMY•NO JUCICIAL/EXECUTIVE

TRISTON DALTON IN A LETTER TO JOHN ADAMS…

“No people ever had a fairer opportunity to be what they have anxiously wished to be…”

• EXTREME NATIONALISTS AND THE NEWBURGH CONSPIRACY

• CONGRESS CAN’T PAY SOLDIERS’ WAGES (NO TAXATION)

• FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES • BRITAIN • SPAIN• JAY TREATY

MOVING TOWARDS NATIONALISM

SHAY’S REBELLION

CHANGE NEEDED

MADISON AND DOGMA OF REPUBLICANISM