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All right, the passage summarizes a speech given by john quincy adams in 1839, 50 years after the ratification of the us constitution.
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So in explaining the american colonists ' conflict with great britain, adams said the struggle was for charted rights and for english liberties, for trial by jury, habeas corpus, and magna carta.
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But the english lawyers had decided that parliament was all powerful.
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So the colonists issued the declaration of independence announcing their unification and self -rule.
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They explained that governments rule only with the consent of the governed.
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They declared that all people have certain rights that governments should not violate.
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Adams criticized the articles of confederation.
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He explained that the declaration of independence represented the will of the american people, while the main principle of the articles of confederation was the sovereignty of organized power and the independence of the separate or disunited states.
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According to adams, the constitution reflects the ideas of the declaration of independence.
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He explained it would allow the affairs of the nation to be administered not by a confederacy or mere league of friendship between the sovereign states, but by a government distributed into three great departments, legislative, judicial, and executive.
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Adams explained the role of the federal government, stating that under the constitution, powers of the government should be limited to concerns interesting to the whole people, leaving the internal administration of each state to its own constitution and laws.
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And then fifthly, adams concluded by stating that the constitution had fulfilled its duty by forming a more perfect union...