How was the writing of the Constitution influenced by the causes of the American Revolution?
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The framers wanted their new country to have more restrictive laws than they had under British rule.
B.
The framers wanted their new government to have more control over their new King than the British did.
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The framers didn't want their new government to have a central figure with supreme authority like the British King.
D.
The framers didn't want their new country to have a representative government similar to the British.
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America form the bedrock of the American Charters of Freedom, a group of documents which also includes the Bill of Rights. All three are enshrined in the Rotunda of the National Archives in an altar-like setting. Abraham Lincoln referred to these documents, particularly the Declaration of Independence, as American scripture, even using the phrase "American civil religion" when he would invoke the Declaration’s place in American memory.
We tend to take the Charters of Freedom for granted and hardly recognize that the Constitution was deliberately written in the present tense to make it a “living document.” And while these documents are all related, they each have a particular history which in its own way binds them. What is crucial to understand about the United States and what makes it daily a work in progress is that the nation is established on a set of principles and ideas through which people are not bound by tribe, race, religion, or language.
Americans celebrate the 4th of July as the day of Independence, but John Adams, one of the five members of the 2nd Continental Congress to serve on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, believed that “the day of deliverance” was actually July 2nd, 1776, the day Congress voted on it, not July 4th, which was a day that Congress refined some of the language.
And unlike John Trumbull’s stirring painting of the event that hangs in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, in which all fifty-five signers appear gathered together, the document was actually signed over a long period of time. Jefferson’s sublime anthem that “all men are created free and equal” from the Declaration's Preamble was roundly cheered at the time, but continues to be defined by each successive generation of Americans. One factor that influenced the Declaration of Independence was the publication in early 1776 of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, which argued in succinct terms that ordinary people had the capacity to govern themselves and did not need to be led by a crowned official. This factor alone made the American Revolution a game-changer in the history of the world. Primogeniture was out and meritocracy was in. Members of Congress, like the American colonists, were heavily influenced by Paine’s text, which had become a sensation and bestseller throughout the thirteen British colonies huddled along the Atlantic Coast. The Declaration simply articulated Paine’s ideas in a more formal manner, declaring separation between England and her American colonies. The timing of the Declaration’s release is interesting to note as the war that had broken out in Massachusetts in April 1775 had shifted from New England to the City of New York. George Washington’s rag-tag Continental Army was in the midst of preparing a defense of New York, anticipating a large British attack. The President of Congress, John Hancock, sent a copy of the Declaration to Washington on July 6 and on July 9 had the document read to his assembled troops. All involved signers of the document and those now fighting to defend it were engaged in treason. Within six weeks, Washington’s army would be routed in New York and by the following December the Continental Army was on the verge of disintegration.
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