This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Constitutional Convention delegates' debates over state vs. federal power. Many were eager to avoid a tyranny.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Framers of the Constitution's decision to hold ratifying conventions for the state governments to approve the new document.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the checks and balances of the Constitution that allow the three branches of government to keep each other in check. This system assures that no one branch becomes too powerful.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the concern many states expressed during the ratification conventions that the new constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the great debate that ensued during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia about how states should be represented equally in Congress, since some states had greater populations than others.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the ratification process for the new Constitution. Once it was written, it needed to be ratified by each of the states. Ratifying conventions were held for delegates to vote on whether or not to adopt the new constitution.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the the Northwest Ordinance, adopted by Congress in 1787, which called for new states to be developed in the Ohio region.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces elements of state constitutions, like branches of power and checks and balances, that were eventually incorporated into the national constitution.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes one of the nastiest presidential elections in American history—the 1824 election, when a highly contested three-way race led to a scandal in Congress.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, when Alexander Hamilton became the Secretary of the Treasury, one of the first things he did was to have the treasury assume all state debts accrued from the American Revolution.

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