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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were series of Acts passed after rebellious events like the Boston Tea Party. The Acts consisted of the Stamp Act, the Townshend Act, and the Tea Act, is also led to events like the Boston Massacre. These acts caused great outrage and rebellion like the Boston Tea Party, leading to a rebel government and organization of the colonial militia against the British government, forming the constitution for protection from similar laws like the Intolerable Acts. -
Thomas Pain Common Sense
"was one of the most widely read pamphlets of its time" it helped advocate independence from Great Britain to all the people in the thirteen colonies, it encouraged the people to speak out and fight.
Pain influenced a new constitution for the Government. -
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia Declaration of Rights protested the inherited rights of men, it "included the right to reform or abolish "inadequate" government." It not only influenced the constitution but it also influenced the Declaration of Independence and the United States Bill of rights. Madisons draft were eventually adapted to the Bill of Rights. -
Influence of the Declaration of independence on the Constitution
"The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation." The Declaration was seen as the "promise and the Constitution
was the fulfillment.” The colonies set forth the ideas and principles while the Constitution outlined how "this government
would function." -
Articles of Confederation
It was an agreement between the 13 Colonies" giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens." "The need for a stronger Federal government soon became apparent and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The present United States Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation on March 4, 1789." -
Shays Rebellion
Shays Rebellion was an uprising that took place in Massachusetts lasting a year, the revolution began with the lower class society, the lower class did not agree with any of the rules that were imposed by the state government. About 4 thousand people took place in this rebellion, it all began when they began to protest against the unfair laws. Shays Rebellion influenced the insurance of domestic tranquiolity in the constitution.
