Under America’s first governing document, the Articles of Confederation, the national government was weak and states operated like independent countries. At the 1787 convention, delegates devised a plan for a stronger federal government with three branches—executive, legislative and judicial—along with a system of checks and balances to ensure no single branch would have too much power.
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<span>This is of course somewhat of a subjective question, but in general most would agree that the reason they found these ideas so disturbing was because they shook their traditional belief system. </span>
