Post on 03-Jan-2016
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No TAX w/out US
Taking people’s property without consent
Governors had greater power/thrown in jail
Cloud of tyranny grew larger
Steps to Independence
Committees of Correspondence=Common Goal
1774-1st Continental Congress-Cut off trade
1775-2nd Continental Congress-P Henry
War already began
1776-Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Need a New Goverment
Free and independent
State Constitutions-written agreements(limits gov power)
Term limits, three branches, legislature most power
AOCFeared a central power
Number of representatives( Large states v. Small)
Loose alignment, one vote,only legislature(Congress), no exec or judicial
Power to declare war,make treaties,regulate state trade
NO POWER TO TAX or ENFORCE LAWS
Limping GovernmentEconomy in the dirt/high debt from war/inflation
New Congress no power to regulate trade with England
Not allowed to trade with West Indies
Debt, unemployment and no strong trade ties
Shays’ Rebellion
Farmers(former Revolutionary soldiers) were losing their land
1786 , Shays and rebels threatened to shut down courts
Mass. had to shut it dwn on own no FEDERAL help