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greatStates from putting taxes ondeal of debate.Just after thetrade.Quarrels between theRevolutionary War,the StatesStates over boundaries and tradeof the new Union were boundcould not be settled,and the con-loosely by the Articles of Con-tinued existence of the Unitedfederation.However,the ArticlesStates was threatened.The situ-gave the Central Government noation was critical;something hadreal power.Congress could maketo be done.laws,it was true,but it had noIn 1787,Congress itself askedway to enforce them.Congressthe States to send delegates to acould neither collect taxes norconvention to consider ways ofsupport an army or navy.If thereimproving the Government.Thiswere troubles between the States,convention,the Constitutionalthe Central Government had noConvention,assembled in Phila-power to settle them.If theStates didn't contribute money  \nAll of the moteriol in this booklet excepting illustrotions was furnished by The Offices of Armed forcesInformotion ond Educotion,Deportment of Defense,Woshington,D.C.Printed in U.S.A.,The NationolReseorch Bureou,Inc.,415 N.Deorborn St.,Chicogo 10,Iil.  \ndelphia in May 1787.The firstdecision of the delegates was thatthe Articles of Confederationwere so ineffective that a newconstitution would have to bewritten.By September 1787,theconvention had completed a newconstitution and it was submittedto State conventions for approval.In the States,arguments aboutthe new Constitution were heated.  \nAfter a great deal ofdoate,delegates were sent to a convention,where the Eompleted a new constitution  \nMany Americans feared it would the House of Representatives,establish a Federal Government then took the lead.The Statestrong enough to violate theratifying conventions had sub-rights of the States and ofindividual citizens.Its opponentswere particularly disturbed be-cause it did not specify the indi-vidual rights and liberties withwhich the new Government couldnot interfere.  \nIn several States,those whofavored adoption of the Constitu-tion had met this argument bypromising a number of constitu-tional amendments setting forththose individual rights and.lib-erties.The Constitution becameeffective in March 1789,ratifiedby 11 States with the under-standing that a bill of rightswould be added as soon as thenew Government went into oper-ation.As a result,many in theFirst Congress felt morally boundto draw up the amendments andsubmit them to the States.Somefriends of the new Governmentalso felt that the addition of abill of rights would win overmany who had opposed the Con-stitution and were still not veryenthusiastic about it.Washing-ton,in his inaugural address,hadsuggested that careful attentionbe given to this demand for a billof rights.  \nmitted various proposals,whichMadison introduced in the Houseas a series of amendments.Theywere debated at length in bothHouses of Congress.After sev-eral months of discussion,12 pro-posed amendments were submit-ted to the States in September of1789.By the end of 1791 enoughStates(nine)had ratified 10 ofthese amendments to make thema part of the Constitution.Theother two were not ratified bythe necessary three-fourths of theStates.  \nThe Need for a Bill of Rights  \nJames Madison,a member of  \ntect their freedom.They wererights that the people alreadyhad;they were not new.But thepeople,remembering their longstruggle to get them,wanted tomake sure that these rights couldnot be taken away by their newGovernment.  \nWhat the Constitution AlreadyGuaranteed  \nThe Constitution itself con-tained some of the things aboutwhich the people were concerned.These included four very impor-tant provisions:  \n1.Trial by jury of all viola-tions of Federal law in the Statewhere the crime was committed.  \n2.The writ of habeas corpuscannot be suspended except intime of public danger.A writ of  \nhabeas corpus is an order from ajudge directing that a person be-ing held in custo","cbCaikf1Cb9vtLqL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikf1Cb9vtLqL","pdf",1746452,28,"English","# 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