American Constitution

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Berkin had written that the constitutional congress of America had been in the midst of financial crisis due to the clamoring repayment of wartime loans. This has all begun after the American Revolution war had ended in 1784. The congress had no more means to provide money to be put into the empty federal treasury. What had happened after the war and the moves that the country had chosen to make the county survived? What moves do the European countries have to install to make a treaty? This essay will tackle about the constitutional convention and ratification of the American Constitution and will be compared with the controversial book: The curious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff. This will root to the determination of the uniqueness of American political system.

Inventing the American Constitution. This book of Carol Berkin was concentrated on how did the American constitution had adjusted after the war. This two-hundred page essay attempts to discuss the constitutional convention to revise the Articles of Confederation which has led to the birth of the U.S. Constitution. The need of military protection and security had caused intercontinental business to experience great consequence. Pirates made Mediterranean lost its trade efficiency as the American ships became bare due to the released security done by the British Navy. The nation's credit was in disaster, countries from other continents were fearful to make loans and sign a treaty. The Congress of the Confederation in that time was in fact lost its effectiveness because of the inability for the officers to build a quorum. Such consequences had led the stability if the congress falls down. During the period between the end of the war and the ratification of the new Constitution, America was nothing more than a collection of independent states. This was especially evident by the states' taxation of each other's trade.

In order to resolve these problems, state legislatures...