"Permit us, then, earnestly to recommend these articles to the immediate and dispassionate attention of the legislatures of the respective states. Let them be candidly reviewed under a sense of the difficulty of combining in one system the various sentiments and interests of a continent divided into so many sovereign and independent communities...”
-- Second Continental Congress, 1777
The statement above, issued by the Second Continental Congress, is most reflective of…
"Permit us, then, earnestly to recommend these articles to the immediate and dispassionate attention of the legislatures of the respective states. Let them be candidly reviewed under a sense of the difficulty of combining in one system the various sentiments and interests of a continent divided into so many sovereign and independent communities...”
-- Second Continental Congress, 1777
The statement above, issued by the Second Continental Congress, is most reflective of…
The desire for the separate states to impose a strong central government following the Revolution
The need for military discipline and control over the thirteen colonies
The need of the Founders to emulate the British model of a Parliament overseen by a strong central authority
The desire for the separate states to produce a governing document to unite very different cultures and communities