The Constitution

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it was already a flawed document. Because not all states were represented when the articles required it, was an illegal document. The delegates working on new that they needed a stronger document, because the articles proved too weak, but it still needed to please all of the states. This was impossible. So what ended up happening was the new ducocument became more and more vague. The only way to create a document that would pass was to make a document which didn’t really solve any problems but make each state believe that there problems would be fixed. This was accomplished by making it so that it was too vague to offend anybody but you could read into it. This made for a document that would be seriously flawed because people would be able to read into it too much. It could not work. of the United States of America was too vague to work. The way was written it gave power to four parts: the congress, the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the states. Because it was so ...

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have abused the system by unbalancing powers and taking rights away from the people. The biggest thing they used to expand their powers was a small section of which they expanded to give them any power the saw proper of themselves to have. Article 1 section 8 clause 18 is called the elastic clause. This clause states that congress can make any laws necessary and proper to carry out their powers. This is one of the big reasons can not work. this clause is just too vague to allow any understanding of what congress’s powers are. Congress would take this clause to the extreme. It does say the can only make laws which would complement their listed powers. However, they took it to mean they ...

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