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[https://libguides.rice.edu/c.php?g=386691&p=9815238 by RICE UNIVERSITY]
[https://libguides.rice.edu/c.php?g=386691&p=9815238 by RICE UNIVERSITY]
  The year is 1787.  The Articles of Confederation are a failure as  a design for government.  Congress has no ability to raise or collect taxes.  The Government cannot pay its debts or the soldiers who had fought in the Revolution.  The individual States are fighting amongst themselves with the larger states abusing the smaller ones.  Interstate trade and commerce are in chaos.
  The year is 1787.  The Articles of Confederation are a failure as  a design for government.  Congress has no ability to raise or collect taxes.  The Government cannot pay its debts or the soldiers who had fought in the Revolution.  The individual States are fighting amongst themselves with the larger states abusing the smaller ones.  Interstate trade and commerce are in chaos.
=====Meet the Framers of the Constitution=====
[https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/founding-fathers by NATIONAL ARCHIVES]
The original states, except Rhode Island, collectively appointed 70 individuals to the Constitutional Convention. A number of these individuals did not accept or could not attend, including Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. In all, 55 delegates attended the Constitutional Convention sessions, but only 39 actually signed the Constitution. The delegates ranged in age from Jonathan Dayton, aged 26, to Benjamin Franklin, aged 81, who was so infirmed that he had to be carried to sessions in a sedan chair.
=====The US Constitution Through History=====
[https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/15740027 by kanopy]
Unpack the ideas of America's founding and trace the evolution of those ideas through the schisms of the 19th century, the transformations of the 20th century, and into our present era.
=====What is the historical background of the U.S. Constitution?=====
[https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-historical-background-of-the-U-S-Constitution by Quora]
Our government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” was not a copy of some other country or governance concept. It was completely new to the world. World scholars called it the great experiment, and they fully expected it to fail.
=====Amendments to the U.S. Constitution=====
[https://archivesfoundation.org/amendments-u-s-constitution/ by NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION]
More than 11,000 amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed, but only 27 have been ratified. The first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing these amendments is on display in the National Archives’ Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom.
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