Chapter 5: Creation of State Governments

Chapter 5: Creation of State Governments

Objectives:

? Examine the early concepts of republicanism, equality and the formation of state governments.

? Analyze the powers of the Articles of Confederation.

? Examine the post war diplomacy between Britain and the U.S.

Rev_13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

The Assumption of Republicanism:

? If Americans agreed on nothing else, when they began to build new governments for themselves, they agreed that those governments would be republican.

? To them, that meant a political system in which all power came from the people, rather than from some supreme authority (such as a king).

? The success of such a government depended on the nature of its citizens.

The Assumption of Republicanism:

o If the population consisted of sturdy, independent property owners imbued with civic virtue, then the republic could survive.

o If it consisted of a few powerful aristocrats and a great mass of dependent workers, then it would be in danger.

o From the beginning, the small freeholder (the independent landowner) was basic to American political ideology.

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