the first constitution of the United States, adopted by Congress in 1777 and ratified in 1781, establishing the Continental Congress as the national legislature but leaving most of the state authority with the state legislatures
A series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers led by Revolutionary War captain Daniel Shays to block foreclosure proceedings.
Confederation.
the proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for representation of each state in Congress in proportion to that state’s share of the US population.
he compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention that established houses of Congress: the House of Representatives, in which which representation is based on a state’s share of the U.S. population; representation is based on a state's’ share of the U.S. population; and the Senate, in which each state has two representatives
requires each of 3 branches of government (executive, legislative, executive); relatively independent of each other so that one cannot control the other; power shared among 3 institutions
constitutional amendment in 1972 which pushed for “equal rights under the law regardless of sex”. It failed due to lack of support from states during state legislation.