Originally they were authorized to revise the Articles of Confederation, but that was not working. They decided that they needed to start over and write a constitution to the country.
Patrick Henry
Individually, America's Founders were by many contemporary standards 'elitists,' if not in necessarily negative ways. As a group, the Founders combined respect for elitism and pluralism in their remarkably original political ideas -- and in the structuring and divisions of the 'grand experiment' of the new nation that they founded.
The Founding Fathers had concerns that the newly created federal government could lose the trust and confidence of the public. Thus they created the option in Article V for a convention of state delegates that could propose constitutional amendments as an alternative to Congress proposing amendments. In either case, proposed amendments would still have to be ratified by the states according to the requirements of Article V. Clearly, the founders feared that Congress might not propose amendments that impacted Congress itself. That is exactly what has happened. The public has lost confidence in Congress and Congress has refused to convene the first Article V convention, despite many hundreds of requests for one from the states. Learn the facts at foavc.org.
At the Constitutional Convention, some of the key issues that were agreed upon include the establishment of a strong federal government with separate branches (executive, legislative, judicial), the creation of a bicameral legislature (with a House of Representatives and a Senate), the compromise between large and small states known as the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise, and the 3/5 compromise which determined how enslaved individuals would be counted for purposes of representation and taxation.
In the Constitutional Convention there was a dispute between the New Jersey Plan (equal representation despite population) and Virginia Plan (representation based on population). In response, Sherman and Johnson created the Connecticut Compromise (or Great Compromise) in which there would be a Senate (2 reps per state) and a House of Representatives (representatives based on population).
Patrick Henry
There are no African Americans that were founders of the United States. Any African American who was at the constitutional convention was a slave.
The Founders established a Constitutional Republic.
The Founders expected Congress to abide by the constitution.
He was a delegate and an inventor in the constitutional convention. I actually had a question for this on my social studies test, and the only thing i wrote was this, yet I got it correct, so I hope this helped(:
The terms "Founding Fathers" or "Founders" are often used to collectively describe the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. To refer only to the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the term "Continental Congress" is generally used. "Constitutional Convention delegates" would describe only the people who assembled to draft the Constitution.
Individually, America's Founders were by many contemporary standards 'elitists,' if not in necessarily negative ways. As a group, the Founders combined respect for elitism and pluralism in their remarkably original political ideas -- and in the structuring and divisions of the 'grand experiment' of the new nation that they founded.
The Founding Fathers had concerns that the newly created federal government could lose the trust and confidence of the public. Thus they created the option in Article V for a convention of state delegates that could propose constitutional amendments as an alternative to Congress proposing amendments. In either case, proposed amendments would still have to be ratified by the states according to the requirements of Article V. Clearly, the founders feared that Congress might not propose amendments that impacted Congress itself. That is exactly what has happened. The public has lost confidence in Congress and Congress has refused to convene the first Article V convention, despite many hundreds of requests for one from the states. Learn the facts at foavc.org.
The structure of the federal government was discussed at the Constitutional Convention, along with how power should be shared between the states and the national government. Another significant issue was how representation in Congress should be determined.
The US Constitution was not created by the Founders. The US Constitution was written by delegates who attended the Philadelphia Convention.
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