A woman loses legal identity after marriage, protected under her husband’s name * Feme covert * Rights? Restrictions? * Feme sole- unmarried woman, legal rights * “recipients, rather than dispensers of justice” * yet, until 1807 woman could vote in NJ * Poor? * Decline of indentured servants by the 1830’s Price of tickets across the Atlantic declined, continued cheap labor of slaves * “anti-revolutionary”? * Jefferson sold his servant to Madison in 1809 Articles of Confederation.
First constitution of the United States * Created during the crisis of war * How might this have influenced the A. of C? * Why was it important to have a Constitution in 1777? * It will help them organize * To show legitimacy to the colonists and other countries * Long term plan for the colonies Examining the Articles * What issues concerned the congress? Article IV * Balance of power * Article V * Congress isn’t to be represented by no less than 2 people from each state, and no more than 7. Only 1 unifying vote per state.
Representation and fear of Monarchy * Article VI * The states trying to break off and make individual treaties with other countries. States cannot band together to work as an independent nation. The states cannot keep weapons or militia from the government in times of need. States cannot wage war on one another. Fear of division. Articles of Confederation Loose alliance of independent states * Each state sent representatives, one vote * 9 of the 13 states had to agree on a bill to pass as law. * Congress could not regulate trade between states or foreign countries * Could not levy taxes, only request * No president…afraid of another monarchy
The Term Paper on State of women in our society
Woman is one of the best creatures of the universe. She has been equally endowed with in terms of intellect, prudence and rights as man has been. The state of woman in Pakistan as compared to man are awfully miserable. She is badly victim of domestic violence and sexual assaults at working places. She is indeed meted out with massive atrocity and injustice. She is being denied her due social, ...
No unified court system Post war economic worries * Each state issued its own money * Massive debt- foreign and domestic * “Not worth a continental” Crisis * loans made to government as well as private merchant enterprise * America locked out of postwar foreign trade Restricted trade with England, west indies * Difficulties trading with France, Spain Shays’ rebellion 1786-87 * Farmers in debt faced repossession and jail * Shaysites attacked courts, prevented action in Massachusetts * State militia defeated Shaysites, federal government powerless to quell the rebellion * Increased mounting support for adding a “hoop to the barrel” * Annapolis convention * Sept. 1786, 5 states * 1780’s was the “Critical Period” according to John Adams.
