Download Comparing Systems of Government

Comparing Systems of Government
Features
Articles of
Confederation
Who Wrote It
2nd Continental
Congress
Committee of 13
Who Ratified It It took ALL 13 states’
approval before it took
affect
Conflict of western land
Delays in
claims (Maryland last to
Ratification
ratify b/c this)
Type of
Government
Created
Confederation—loose
union of states
Type of
Congress
Confederation
Congress w/limited
powers
Each state had only 1
vote in a unicameral
Congress (unicameral=1
US Constitution
Constitutional Convention
James Madison
9 of 13 states’ approval needed
for it to take affect
(eventually all 13 approved it)
Addition of a Bill of Rights
Antifederalists thought national
government too strong
RI=last; NC=2nd to the last
Democratic Republic
Democracy=people’s rule
Republic=representative
government
Federalism=power shared by
federal, state, and local gov’ts
Bicameral Congress with a Senate
(upper house) and House of
Representative (lower House)
house)
Title of Chief
Executive
Powers Given
to the
National
Government
Had no real chief
executive (President of
the Confederation
Congress)
Make coins & borrow
money
Negotiate & make
foreign treaties
Settle conflicts with
Native Americans
Maintain a military
President
Federal law supersedes (takes
precedent/overrules) state law
Legislative=makes laws
Executive=enforces/carries out
laws
Judicial=interpret the laws
Settle disputes between the states
Powers Given
to the State
Government
Problems with
Government
Problems
Creating
Government
Pretty much anything
not listed above
Enumerated powers=anything not
specifically given to the national
government belongs to the states
Concurrent powers=powers
shared by both national and state
governments
Could not regulate
Do NOT have to worry about this
trade between the
box
states
*Government has been
Difficulty enforcing
functioning for 221 years under
treaties
current constitution with only 17
Couldn’t force states to changes* (will explain in class)
provide money
(and for some this is a matter of
No court system
opinion)
Do NOT have to worry
Representation of SMALL v. LARGE
about this box
states
nd
2 CC had to create
Representation of slaveholding
gov’t after declaring
states (how to count slaves in the
independence and did population which determined
not want a gov’t that
number of rep. in House of Rep.
was anything like
Britain’s