Chapter 2

The United States Constitution is stronger than the Articles of Confederation, because the Constitution creates and imposes new rules that the Articles of Confederation did not. Under the Articles of Confederation: Congress could request states to pay taxes, there were no federal courts, there was no regulation of trade, there was no executive branch, and Congress could not raise an army. Whereas under the United States Constitution: Congress has the right to levy taxes, there is a federal court system, Congress can regulate trade between states, there is an executive branch, and Congress can raise an army. If the country still operated under the Articles of Confederation, the United States would have had no national security, therefore other countries could have invaded the U.S and ceased the existence of the world we know today.

From reading the first three articles of the Constitution, something I learn that I did not already know is that the Vice- President is the leader of the senate.

The Supreme Court ruling in Marbury v. Madison is very important, because it established judicial review, which gave the Supreme Court power to eliminate Congress’s actions that conflicted with the Constitution.

The United States government today is more like what the Federalists envisioned. When the Constitution was written, the Bill of Rights was the only thing the Antifederalists wanted that was included in the Constitution, and the Federalists only included the Bill of Rights to try and get the Antifederalists to agree to ratify the Constitution. The government today is still how the Federalists wanted it to be set up, and their Constitution is still the supreme law of the land.