Summary Of A Brilliant Solution

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The nation today would not be what it is without the work that the Founding fathers put in during the Continental Convention. Their careful thought of every idea that was proposed to insure the best solution to our failing nation, their exploration of the many ideas of who could hold sole power taking in to consideration the possible issue of the misuse of power. In “A Brilliant Solution” by Carol Berkin she examines the political crisis that the founding father faced and how they went about handling it. Through her book she explores of the revision of the Articles of Confederation which led to the birthing of the U.S. Constitution and a new government. She writes about how they dove in to the Continental Convention with “commitment to representative …show more content…

She talks about how after the revolution they faced economic problems. The farmers during the Revolution expanded their production to meet the supply and demand for food, but once the revolution was over and farming resumed in every state they were struggling to meet the mortgage payments. Berkin goes on to say “These nagging economic problems had not brought Americans closer together. Wherever one looked, the completion interest of creditors and debtors, rural farmers and urban merchants, artisans and importers, acted as centrifugal forces, dividing the nation.” With the nation failing economically and politically “Henry Knox, declared, “our present federal government is a name, a shadow, without power of effect””. It was time to call a convention to see what they could do to save our failing …show more content…

The delegates started visualize the president in being the “the representative of the people and peoples guardian against legislative hubris” this lead to the idea of the people choosing the president. They went on to debate about what the president had the power to do as well as what the other two branches of government had the power to do. Towards the ending of the convention they drafted the Constitution and it was time to get it ratified by at leased nine of the

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