The structure and functional logic of the Constitution of the United States of America

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: USA, grade: 2,3, University of the Federal Armed Forces München (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), course: Einführung in die Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen, language: English, abstract: In 1787 the delegates of the first twelve states, with only Rhode Island as the thirteenth state of the former British colonies that would later form the United States of America not participating, had gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of the Confederation. As it turned out, what came to known as the Philadelphia Convention, decided to develop and propose a new constitution without actually being told to do so. This process finally led to the Constitution of the United States of America, which was then adopted and signed by 39 of the 55 convention's participants on September 17th the same year...