Guest Blogger: Leyla Budimlic

The Articles of Confederation the class has learned, was an established government dominated by the United States. This government had a legislature with one house, and each state had one vote. The Congress had many problems including that it had few powers besides having an army and a navy. The Articles of Confederation ties in with The Constitutional Convention where framers tried to propose their ideas about a better type of government for the United States. The Constitutional Confederation was composed of three different ideas which were the New Jersey Plan, the Virginia Plan, and the Connecticut Compromise. The New Jersey Plan called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state’s population. The Virginia Plan called for representation of each state in Congress to that state’s population. The Connecticut Compromise was a combination of the two. All of these proposals and ideas for the Constitution and Government have to do with how the Constitution contradicts the Declaration of Independence because the Constitution is silent on equality. The selection of the Connecticut Compromise and the written document of the Declaration of Independence opened many new doors for America. The three-fifths compromise let slaves be counted for levying taxes and for representation. The Slave-Trade Compromise said that Congress couldn’t act on the slave trade for at least twenty years. This is why we have Government class, to learn about how our history of Government came to how it is today.