VERMONT

The first clause is exactly that used by the state of Pennsylvania in its constitution. These had no reference to the militia as did the Virginia Bill of Rights and later the Federal Constitution.

In the first article of its first Constitution Vermont banned slavery and indentured servitude. Delaware had previously done it. See {621427}

The right to form a new state in vacant and purchased land was quite remarkable. This right never made it into the U. S. Constitution.

Many of the fundamental principles of government that were in the United States Constitution, were already in the Constitutions of different states. Vermont had a substantial number of them. When we speak of the Constitution as a “revolutionary document” it was to the rest of the world but not to many Americans who had these concepts in their state constitutions and had been living with them for some time.

This was written over a decade before the Second Amendment became a part of the U. S. Constitution.

From the very beginning of the country, some states reserved the job of policing the state to the state as opposed to the Federal Government and would not countenance federal police, and there really were not any until the FBI was created in the 20th century. Still unlike any other country, the Federal government has minimal policing power. The FBI is very small—so small that it is smaller then one of the three shifts of the New York City police department.

This was a decade before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. You can imagine the distress of Vermonters when the U. S. Constitution was written with no provision for absolute freedom of speech which they had had for a over a decade. They would not ratify the U, S, Constitution without the understanding that there would be a Bill of Rights added with the First Amendment.

The first clause is exactly that used by the state of Pennsylvania in its constitution. These had no reference to the militia as did the Virginia Bill of Rights and later the Federal Constitution.

Vermont in some respect was far ahead of much of the rest of the country when it came to education. There was no such requirement in the U. S. Constitution which NEVER even mentioned education.

The right to form a new state in vacant and purchased land was quite remarkable. This right never made it into the U. S. Constitution.

Many of the fundamental principles of government that were in the United States Constitution, were already in the Constitutions of different states. Vermont had a substantial number of them. When we speak of the Constitution as a “revolutionary document” it was to the rest of the world but not to many Americans who had these concepts in their state constitutions and had been living with them for some time.

Many of the fundamental principles of government that were in the United States Constitution, were already in the Constitutions of different states. Vermont had a substantial number of them. When we speak of the Constitution as a “revolutionary document” it was to the rest of the world but not to many Americans who had these concepts in their state constitutions and had been living with them for some time.

In early America, there was great concern about a standing army—a military force that exists and is organized in peacetime. History showed the founding fathers that tyrants who siezed power almost always did so by getting control of the standing army. The logic was if there is no standing army, no one can control it and therefore no tyrant can control the country by force. At the time, however, with oceans protecting us, there was penty of time to mobilize a defensive army should any foreign power invade. However, with modern military technology, and the importantance of retaliation as a protective3 strategy, it is virtually impossible to not have a standing army and stoll be secure.

This was written over a decade before the Second Amendment became a part of the U. S. Constitution.

This was a decade before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. You can imagine the distress of Vermonters when the U. S. Constitution was written with no provision for absolute freedom of speech which they had had for a over a decade. They would not ratify the U, S, Constitution without the understanding that there would be a Bill of Rights added with the First Amendment.

From the very beginning of the country, some states reserved the job of policing the state to the state as opposed to the Federal Government and would not countenance federal police, and there really were not any until the FBI was created in the 20th century. Still unlike any other country, the Federal government has minimal policing power. The FBI is very small—so small that it is smaller then one of the three shifts of the New York City police department.

In the first article of its first Constitution Vermont banned slavery and indentured servitude. Delaware had previously done it. See {621427}

This was written and adopted by Vermont a decade before the United States Constitution the ideas for which were in existence in America before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

This law had an interesting unanticipated effect. Since most prisoners were assigned work outside the jail in different locations, there were not enough guards to watch them all so most reported to their work assignments as if they were going to a job and returned to the jail after work. The prisoners were paid wages by private employers and the first dollar a day they earned went to the State for their expenses. However, the prisoners got to keep the rest. The system seemed to work very well, however the crimes were relatively minor ones. In modern times, as a practical matter, almost no one gets jailed for these offenses any more.