Differences Between The Constitution And The US Constitution

After the Revolutionary war has concluded, the first 13 American states made a manifestation of a national government in order to generate order in the United States. The Articles of Confederation was the first set of rules permitted upon the states that supplied a foundation, and restrictions upon the government. Although some type of order was established within the nation, its main weakness was the lack of power in the central government. The arrangement of the Articles was based on a “loose confederation” meaning that the unity of the states as a nation was frail due to the ineffective central government. The 13 states individually had supreme power and self-government along with a weak central government made up of congress with a unicameral

The alterations made onto the Articles are the set of rules that were going to be enforced and that are still enforced today, known as the U.S. constitution. The ideology of the constitution was to have the structure similar to a republic, meaning the power existed in the people who would designate officials and a federal philosophy, which meant that authority was distributed among the states and central government, but this time most of the influence was in the central government. One notable difference between the Articles and the U.S. Constitution was not only based on the rules they made, but by framers. The framers of the Constitution came from individual that were considered to be very wealthy and well-educated background. It was not made by the “common man” like the Articles of Confederation was. In today’s world, the trend of only those who are well-educated and well-off tend to play a role in congress is still being seen

What delegates thought the Articles of Confederation was lacking was a strong national government which it was finally entailed into the U.S. Constitution. It provided a legislative, executive and judicial branch, which were in charge of assembling policies within the states, imposing laws, and inferring laws, respectively. These branches made certain that authority was being distributed equally among the states and that no one would have more of an influence than one another. Another vital attribute that the U.S. constitution has is called the Supremacy Clause, which states that federal is superior over state law and has priority over any law in the U.S. (Greenberg & Page, pg. 44). These key features are what undeniably separated the Articles of Confederations from the U.S. constitution. The Articles of Confederations had a very weak central government since the states were the ones making vital decisions about what was best themselves and not the nation. The U.S. constitution definitely diminished the powers of the state by increasing the power of the federal government and by enabling them to regulate more things than they did