The Great Awakening was the religious revival that swept through the world in the mid 1700’s. In the colonies it was the beginning of Evangelical Calvinism, and was centered mainly in the South. Johnathan Edwards was a Congregational Pastor in Northampton Connecticut. He was extremely outspoken for justification by faith alone. In essence it was God’s will that you did things a certain way. The Zenger Trial was the first victory for The Freedom …showed first 75 words of 1068 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1068 total…the Constitution of the United States. The Articles of Confederation was the original governing paper in the United States. It established a “confederacy of sovereign states”. These Articles proved to be not as powerful as they could be Congress had no power to enforce its will on the states and destroyed the governmental powers completely. It provided a starting off point for the Constitution, in much the same way that the original Mass charter did.