GrumpyCatFace wrote:Speaker to Animals wrote:Let me guess. Your government school civics class was taught by a jaded Hillsborough County deputy sheriff.
1788 Constitution creates the government >
For 229 years, the Constitution is the definition of the government >
2017 Constitution is not the government.
MHF, folks.
Seriously... you make my brain hurt.
1773 Boston Tea Party happened, with the creation of the American Patriots adhering to a political identity called republicanism. 1775 was the creation of the first Continental Congress, 1776 was the 2nd in where the US was in name only an independent country.
1783 the Articles of Confederation was what allowed the US to create a centralized government. The US Constitution ratified in 1789 gave guidelines to the ruling government. 1791 the Bill of Rights was written up and added, to give people rights that the government couldn't take away.
So no, the US Constitution is not what gave the US it's government... the Articles of Confederation was.