• What would have made travel across America difficult for early Americans?

They may have walked along the beach when they could, and built crude vessels when they could travel only by water. And it's the only way, so far, to explain how they got to South America 14,000 years ago. tried to follow the route of those early settlers today, he would find it a very difficult task.

basic principles: federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, representative democracy, limited government, rule of law, individual rights and responsibilities, consent of the governed, majority rule, popular sovereignty, equal protection.

the main concern with the first draft of the articles of confederation was too much power in the state governments.