Unit 5: Lesson 9: The Judicial Branch

"During the years the Articles of Confederation were in force (1781-1789), there were no national courts and no national judiciary. The laws of the United States were interpreted and applied as each state saw fit, and sometimes not at all. Disputes between states and between persons who lived in different states were decided, if at all, by the courts in one of the states involved. Often, decisions by the courts in one state were ignored by courts in the other states."

1. This excerpt from the textbook explains why (1 point)

A. delegates to the Constitutional Convention wanted checks and balances among the branches of government.
B. the Framers of the Articles of Confederation felt there was no need for a national judiciary.
C. the Framers of the Constitution thought it was important to have a national judiciary.
D. many members of Congress felt there was no need for a strong federal government.

C, the Framers of the Constitution thought it was important to have a national judiciary. When reading the text, you can infer that because there was so much conflict between states, with no help coming from any of the state courts, a national court needed to have supreme authority over the state governments.

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AkshayG AkshayG · Answer 2 · 2019-09-29T06:41:59+02:00

The above mentioned excerpt from the textbook explains that why the farmers of the Constitution thought that there was a need to have a national judiciary.

Further Explanation:

The farmers of the constitution thought that it was important to have a national judiciary because under Articles of Confederation, Lack of judiciary became problem as the states were always locking their horns when it came to state Vs. state cases as no one was able to settle disputes between States. After this issue saw no correction, the farmers of the constitution thought that there was strong need of a national judicial system in the country and that was when Articles of Confederation was scrapped and new constitution was adopted. The articles of Confederation failed on all the aspects for which it was made such as Economic growth, Unity among states, creating policies for different states and other aspects as well. Under these Articles of Confederation, National government had no powers to enforce laws made by United States on other states of the country. For example if there was an issue between two states going in Court of any of the state, The state against which the verdict used to came never accepted the verdict. This problem was noted by founding farmers of the constitution and to make all states work with each other, Articles of Confederation needed to be changed or scrapped completely which was lastly done.

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Answer details:

Grade: High School

Subject: History

Chapter: Articles of Confederation

Keywords:

Articles of Confederation, Virginia, State disputes, Diplomatic relations, Constitution, Agreement, United States of America, Scrapped, Adopted, and Correction.