Long Term Effects
- Increased confidence in national government
- Debates over states' rights and powers
- Even today in the 21st century, the Ferguson riots brought up a call for national address and change
- Since the constitution was made to be a living breathing document, amendments could be added, such as the 19th amendment allowing women voting rights, or the addition and removal of prohibition, of the 13th amendment freeing slaves and the 14th and 15th granting equal rights.
- Long and ongoing debates over the balance of power of national government and state governments. For example, while the national government has jurisdiction over general laws and national security, while the states have jurisdiction over marriage laws and educational laws.
- The constitutional convention itself set the precedent for the democracy that America would become the experiment for and still value today.