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[ 출처 : www.archives.gov/founding-docs ]
Just a few years after the Revolutionary War, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington feared their young country was on the brink of collapse. America’s first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, gave the Confederation Congress the power to make rules and request funds from the states, but it had no enforcement powers, couldn’t regulate commerce, or print money. The states’ disputes over territory, war pensions, taxation, and trade threatened to tear the young country apart. Alexander Hamilton helped convince Congress to organize a Grand Convention of state delegates to work on revising the Articles of Confederation.
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▶ the Revolutionary War - 미국독립전쟁
▶ the Articles of Confederation - 연방 규약(1781년 북부 13주가 제정한 미국 최초의 헌법, 1789년에 현행 헌법으로 개정)
▶ Confederation Congress - 연합의회
▶ The United States Constitutional Convention - 필라델피아 제헌회의
55 delegates attended the Constitutional Convention sessions, but only 39 actually signed the Constitution
war pension : 전상자 연금
tear aprart : (국가·조직 등을) 분열시키다, 해체하다
The Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia in May of 1787. The delegates shuttered the windows of the State House and swore secrecy so they could speak freely. Although they had gathered to revise the Articles of Confederation, by mid-June they had decided to completely redesign the government. There was little agreement about what form it would take.
One of the fiercest arguments was over congressional representation—should it be based on population or divided equally among the states? The framers compromised by giving each state one representative for every 30,000 people in the House of Representatives and two representatives in the Senate. They agreed to count enslaved Africans as three-fifths of a person. Slavery itself was a thorny question that threatened to derail the Union. It was temporarily resolved when the delegates agreed that the slave trade could continue until 1808.
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▶ the State House : 주의사당
▶ congressional representation : 의회대표
▶ the House of Representatives : 하원
▶ the Senate : 상원
▶ the slave trade : 노예매매, 노예무역
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