The U.S. Constitution

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This paper attends to the question of how the United States Constitution is planned, plotted and designed to fulfill the hope of a truly federal government. It looks at the planning in terms of being for a government that is controlled equally by a centralized governmental body, as well as by several separate governmental units, in the case of the United States of America, its separate and sovereign states.

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"Longing for change from the powerful central government that had once ruled their ancestors and themselves, but knowing that there must be some semblance of control and coordination that only a central government could offer, the planners and movers of the United States set about to create a compromise, a system of checks and balances, a distribution of power, within this new and exciting nation with whose framework they had been entrusted. This short essay will detail and explore the ways in which this document and plan set the United States of America up to be a federal government, that is by definition, a government and nation which is, per its constitution, separated between the power of a central and authoritative government and the powers of connected, smaller units, in this case states, all of whom share power and sovereignty with the larger and centralized body."

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