HIST 2055 Chapter : 4 Creating A New Government During The Revolution
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Republic to work, it had to be small and responsive for what happens locally. It represented the local rather than the national, and popular sovereignty worked best on a small scale: strong local and state governments, weak national government. Lower house: seen as more deliberative and aristocratic and wise, taking longer time to discuss things and think of the long term. Revolution: trial by jury was a group of peers in response to admiralty, separation of church and state. First national government: articles of confederation (1777: characteristics, created by the temporary continental congress, and says that the national government is a perpetual union of the states, and ratified by the states. It required a majority of states to ratify it, which doesn"t happen until. 1781: this took 4 years because states were afraid of a centralized national government, when the majority happens in 1781, they first use the term united.
