Ratifying the Constitution

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Ratifying the Constitution

• To ratify the Constitution, a battle would drag
  on for 2 years

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Ratifying the Constitution

• Up to this point, men had made compromises to get
  the Constitution written in 1787
• It doesnt take affect until the states vote for
  it, or ratify it
• It would be a Dogfight to get the required
  number of states to ratify it

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Ratifying the Constitution

• Two opposing groups emerge
• Federalists Supported ratifying the Constitution
• Anti-Federalists Opposed ratifying the
  Constitution

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Ratifying the Constitution
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Ratifying the Constitution

• A major argument between the two groups was the
  power between the federal govt and the states
• Federalists had more people who argued better
  points however and eventually won
• Anti-Federalists did get one thing added to
  Constitution
• The Bill of Rights!

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Ratifying the Constitution
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Ratifying the Constitution

• By 1789 we have a President, a Congress, a
  judicial system and our modern day government
• No official Bill of Rights until 1791

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Ratifying the Constitution

• The Constitution has been brought into many
  important Supreme Court cases

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Supreme Court and the Constitution

• University of California v. Bakke
• A reverse discrimination case as a white man was
  denied admission to medical school because so
  many spots were reserved for African Americans

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Supreme Court and the Constitution

• Plessy v. Ferguson A case that allowed separate
  but equal facilities and promoted racial
  segregation after the Civil War
• Brown v. The Board of Education Overturned the
  above case and said that separate but equal did
  not justify segregation in public schools

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The Constitution Today

• The Constitution is still the law of the land
  today. It is considered to be a living and
  flexible document.
• Why?
• It can be changed (adding an amendment) as
  society changes so that it stays relevant and up
  to date

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Other important founding documents

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• It provided a process to admit new states to the
  union
• It allowed for the creation of Ohio, Indiana,
  Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and parts of
  Minnesota

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• These territories could become states when they
  had 60,000 citizens
• Slavery was not allowed
• Each new state was run by a governor, secretary,
  and three judges

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787