Question

The Founders of the United States gave much consideration to the division of responsibility between federal and state governments. They strove to strike a balance between an overbearing central government (such as the British government that had ruled them before the Revolution) and an overreliance on local governments (such as the structure of US government under the Articles of Confederation). Many citizens today continue to debate the correct balance between federal and state government.

What is your position? Name some areas of conflict where you think the powers are improperly balanced

Answer 1

1. Puritan Separatists/Plymouth Plantation/Pilgrims/Mayflower Compact: Puritan Separatists were a group of English Puritans who left England to seek religious freedom. They first went to the Netherlands, and in 1620 to America. They were sponsored by Thomas Weston and other merchants who had received a patent for a settlement from the Virginia Company of London. Eighteen families went across the Atlantic in the Mayflower with the agreement that they would send back goods to England to pay for their new land. In November of 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, outside the bounds of Virginia. Since they had no legal right to be there, leaders and forced adult males in the group to sign the Mayflower Compact that created a civil government for all of them, also called a "civil body politic" under the sovereignty of James I. This group of Puritans known as "Pilgrims" created the colony of Plymouth Plantation. The colony was aided by the knowledge of local Indians.
2. Sir Walter Raleigh came to North America as part of Elizabethan expansion in 1558, because of a lust for action and a readiness to lead overseas adventures. In 1587, Raleigh sponsored a colony on Roanoke Island off of what is now North Carolina. Raleigh founded this colony based on the dream of a place where the English, Spanish, and Blacks could live together in a productive colony sponsored by England. The leader of the colony, John White, went back to England to get supplies however, when he returned he found nothing. Roanoke came to be known as the "Lost Colony". The failure of Roanoke delayed the establishment of more English colonies for seventeen years.
3. Richard Hakluyt, an associate of Sir Walter Raleigh and a geographer, was a member of the company of adventures promoting the colonization of Virginia. He published collections of explorers’ accounts The Principle Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation. He argued that England needed colonies to protect itself against Spain. His books circulated widely, popularizing the idea of settlement and enticing interest in it throughout England.
4. Virginia Company of Plymouth was chartered by King James I in 1606 for merchants and others who wanted to set up trading colonies in America, from Maine to the Potomac. A colony was founded on the Maine coast, but failed after one harsh winter. The charter of the failed Virginia Company of Plymouth was bought by a group of Puritan Separatists, who were seeking to escape religious intolerance. Puritans established Plymouth Colony in 1620 near the place where the previous colony failed.

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Answer 2

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