Through the Great bargain and the 3/5 trade off. The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met amongst May and September of 1787 to address the issues of the feeble focal government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
Pulitzer and Hearst published stories that exaggerated the mistreatment of Cubans by the Spanish, which bred public animosity toward Spain in the years leading up to the Spanish American War. The 1898 sinking of the US battleship Maine is often cited as the “peak” of yellow journalism.
In the United States, the United States Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land.
