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Assignment:

Need Top Tutor. I have submitted this work and received feedback from my professor.

Please help revised my answer and answer my professor feedback questions.

1. What was Shays' Rebellion and what effect did it have on the Constitutional Convention?

2. Describe the process of negotiation over the creation of the Constitution.

3. What is the significance of the 14th Amendment as it relates to the Bill of Rights? How has the interpretation of this amendment changed?

This is my Professor feedback on these question feedback.

In the first answer, you need to add several more points associated with what you writee about the need to maintain order. The Shays rebels were not just protesting about the taxes, if you remember, but also about the corrupt way in which the government of Massachusetts benefitted the elite. The bankers bought the IOUs given to the farmers and then insisted that the government pay them back...and tax to farmers to do so. So Shays rebels called themselves "regulators" and wanted to make the government serve their needs and not the elite. So there is very much this fear of the poorer people in the Constitutional Convention - the need for a new constitution to be created that can step in to help states against rebellion. You might also add more info on why the Articles of Confederation were so weak in other ways, too...

In the second question, you should have more detail about the proposals. How did the Virginia Plan favor larger states? How did the NJ plan favor smaller states? And remember, there is also the 3/5 Compromise, also called the "North South compromise", too. What was that about? Significantly, the same states that supported that compromise supported the Connecticut compromise, too. And how many states opposed the compromises or didn't vote? And what about Rhode Island?! The thing here is to capture the way that the constitutional convention was full of compromises that no one completely liked, but that it held the new country together. Remember, the southern states threatened to leave...Why?

On the third question, there's a lot more that can be said. What was the 14th amendment a response to? Whose rights had to be guaranteed? With the 14th amendment as a 'gateway' to applying the Bill of Rights to state laws and constitutions when and how did the courts apply these rights (it took a long time!). You should also include the theory of "substantive due process" and how the 14th amendment WAS seen as providing a right to privacy...but was has happened recently on that?