QST LA 245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Commerce Clause, School Zone, Imminent Lawless Action
23 Jul 2018
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No other written constitution has lasted so long, governed so many, or withstood such challenge. The founding fathers, also called the framers, wanted it to last for centuries, and they understood that would happen only if the document permitted interpretation and fleshing out by later generations. U. s was the first nation in modern history founded on the idea that the people could govern themselves, democratically. The states were governing themselves under the articles of confederation, but these articles gave the central, national, government no real power. One method of limiting power was to create a national government divided into three branches, each independent and equal: each branch would act as a check on the power of the other two. The national government had considerable, but limited, power: article i, section 8, enumerates those issues on which congress may pass statutes. In 1791 the first 10 amendments, known as the bill of rights, were added to the.
