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The Puritans were the first in this country to point out the need for some kind of public education. They established schools to teach not just the essentials-reading, writing and math- but also to reinforce their core values. ... They began calling for free, compulsory school for every child in the nation.
The idea began to spread that childhood should be a time for learning, and schools for children were developed as places of learning. ... In America, in the mid 17th century, Massachusetts became the first colony to mandate schooling, the clearly stated purpose of which was to turn children into good Puritans.
The Articles of Confederation were just a beginning outline of what the Constitution did.
The articles of Confederation had 2 omissions that the Constitution added.
1. There was no executive branch to enforce the laws
2. There was no judicial branch to interpret the law.
3. The Federal government couldn't collect taxes. They got their money from the states.
4. The Feds couldn't issue a standard currency. Each state had it's own.
5. Trade was not uniformly practiced by the states.
6. Often the states wouldn't pay the Federal Government because they feared other states wouldn't pay either.
7. The Constitution introduced a supremacy law where the laws of the Federal Government were above state law.
There were a couple of minor fixes
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8. Laws governing commerce between the states was introduced into the constitution
9. The federal government determined how trade was to be conducted between the states and other sovereign nations.
Federalism, or the dual roles of state and national government, is part of the system of sharing power in government. Within the system of separate powers, however, the framers of the Constitution provided for "national" or "federal" supremacy. This meant that the national government was supreme in regards to many issues in relation to state governments, as enumerated by the Constitution.
