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The Continental Congress was running America at the time and they came up with laws to govern the United States and these laws the Articles of Confederation

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The government then made a congress that broke off into three branches. The legislative branch is the branch that is responsible for making laws

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The next branch is the executive branch which is lead by the President and the branch executes the laws that the legislature passes.

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The final of the three branches is the judicial branch which which involves judges and courts and they apply the laws that were passed and executed.

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The early constitutions for each state formed their government and a constitution describes a government's parts, powers, and duties.

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After the American Revolution, they realized that they needed a government and they favored a republic which is a government run by the people through their elected representatives.

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Daniel Shays, a war veteran with lots of debt and facing time in prison rebelled against tax collector a the new taxes which made the government realize that they needed to form a stronger government.

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At this time in America, instead of the currency we use today, they used gold and silver coins which is also known as specie.

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When people began to want George Washington as their president, some people wanted to revise, or amend, the Articles of Confederation.

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Stated in the Virginia Plan, the legislature would have the power to prohibit something from becoming a law or, veto the law

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Created the legislative branch and broke up in two houses, the senate and the house

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They could not determine whether to count slaves into the population because if the south counted them, they would gain much power in the house of representatives and they would be weak if they didn't. So to make it right in the middle they counted three-fifths of the slave population.

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The leaders of America decided to start to call our government a federal government which means power is shared through the states and national authorities.

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So that eeryone would have complete power they separated it into the three branches, legislative, executive, and judicial and they all had their own areas of authority.

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To keep all three branches in balance, each branch had the power to stop or, check the others in certain ways.

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To vote for a president, each state got their own voters and the amount varied depending on how many members they have in congress, these voter were called the electoral college.