A few historians have argued that if these United States of America were a play, the battlefield outcomes of our horrific Civil War completed Act III. In Act I, the creation of a new nation was declared and secured by the American Revolution. The second act laid the foundation for actual governance with our laws, expressed several years later, by the U.S. Constitution. After several years of fits and mis-starts post-revolution, the Articles of Confederation were scrapped in order to form a "more perfect union," as expressed upfront by the Constitution. Surely the new document's preamble may have been "perfect" for some, but in 1860, nearly 4 million slaves were personae non gratae. Well before the ink dried on the new Constitution during those steamy colonial days ...
The American journey from being subjects of the King of England to a self-governing republic under the United States Constitution was a trip with many detours. One of the most significant of those detours, the ratification of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, occurred this week (March 1) in 1781. It gave America its first national government, and like most first stabs at something, there was room for improvement - as members of Congress quickly recognized.
§ 20.1. Separation of Powers Checks and Balances. § 20.1.1 Having Some Constitutional Government Structure in Place and Operating. § 20.1.1.1 Ensuring the Continuity of Government. § 20.1.1.2 The 1781 Articles of Confederation and Their Replacement by the 1789 Constitution. § 20.1.1.3 Amending the United States Constitution. § 20.1.2 Issues in the Election of Members of the Federal Government. § 20.1.2.1 Presidential Election. § 20.1.2.2 Congressional Elections. § 20.1.3 Impeachment Power of Congress. § 20.1.4 Immunities from Suit . § 20.1.4.1 Congressional Immunities: The Arrest and Speech or Debate Clauses. § 20.1.4.2 Executive Immunities. A. The President. B. Immunity for Lower Federal Officials. § 20.1.4.3 Judicial Immunity and Congressional Interference with the Courts. § 20.1.4.4 ...
For one of the enduring reasons to support consolidation of Memphis and Shelby County governments, look to the history, and the very name, of our country: the United States of America. At a time when neither Memphis, Shelby County nor Tennessee was even on the map, a group of ardent Americans was debating whether a new form of consolidated federal government should replace the existing - and to some, outdated - charter known as the Articles of Confederation. The new form of government outlined in the proposed Constitution of the United States of America was an attempt to strengthen the security and economies of the existing states - to help secure "the common good of the society.
The Fort Pickawillany Society Children of the American Revolution held its annual meeting to elect and install new officers. Officers elected and installed: President Samantha Miller of Trenton, Vice President Kristina Marion of Tipp City, Chaplain Owen Berg of Springfield, Recording Secretary Katlyn Larck of Piqua, Treasurer Kaleb Larck of Piqua, Corresponding Secretary Erica Zimmerman of Tipp City, Registrar Kelly Slonaker of Fairborn, Historian Jenna Riley of Christiansburg and Librarian Curator Kate Slonaker of Fairborn. The National Packet was reviewed by all members and seniors and programs and dates were planned for the upcoming year. A few of the items selected by members to accomplish are: cleaning the Barbee Cemetery located on Lytle Road in Troy in August, having a campout in...
RESISTANCE NEEDED TO CURTAIL DRILLING Santa Fe County Commissioners should fight oil and gas drilling in Santa Fe County all out, even if it leads to court challenges. Communities in the U.S. currently have very little means under the law to protect themselves from threats such as drilling because the (elite) framers of the Constitution abandoned the original Articles of Confederation and subtly re-inserted the structure of British Common Law in the Constitution. This eventually led to Supreme Court rulings granting corporations "personhood rights," and to legal structures, such as the separation of surface and sub-surface rights. Admittedly, we will eventually need constitutional amendments to better protect our communities, or a new constitution altogether. But the framers, including ...
Local historians believe they've stumbled upon what may be a 1791 receipt for legal services rendered by Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Ron Gagliardi, the town historian and a member of the Cheshire Historical Society's board of directors, said the five-line note bearing Sherman's signature turned up pasted in a book of signatures found earlier this month in a file cabinet at the group's headquarters, the Hitchcock-Phillips House, which is located along the Town Green.
The Fort Pickawillany Society Children of the American Revolution held its annual meeting to elect and install new officers. Officers elected and installed: President Samantha Miller of Trenton, Vice President Kristina Marion of Tipp City, Chaplain Owen Berg of Springfield, Recording Secretary Katlyn Larck of Piqua, Treasurer Kaleb Larck of Piqua, Corresponding Secretary Erica Zimmerman of Tipp City, Registrar Kelly Slonaker of Fairborn, Historian Jenna Riley of Christiansburg and Librarian Curator Kate Slonaker of Fairborn. The National Packet was reviewed by all members and seniors and programs and dates were planned for the upcoming year. A few of the items selected by members to accomplish are: cleaning the Barbee Cemetery located on Lytle Road in Troy in August, having a campout in...
BY THE time they got together in 1787 to create the Constitution that still governs the United States, the nation's founders had already experimented with several different forms of government: colonial British rule, the Continental Congress and the early Articles of Confederation, which the Constitution replaced. So the idea of changing governments to better serve the public good has a venerable tradition in America. Under these circumstances, the Committee to Reform Hampshire County Government (of which I am a member) is perplexed that our legitimate petition to alter our county commission, as provided for in the West Virginia Constitution, has met with such stubborn resistance from the Legislature. This resistance has reached the point that we were forced to sue House Speaker Bob Kis...
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